First arrest / Pershyi aresht
ID:
4864
Updated:
10.02.2025
Name:
First arrest / Pershyi aresht
Author:
Mykola Kuzovkin
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1964
Type:
Graphics
Technique of implementation:
Graphics, plot composition
Materials:
Paper, colour linocut
Dimensions:
40,8x45,5 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Г – 369, КП – 1367
Location of special signs:
On the back on paper or cardboard
Description:
A multi-figure composition. Most of the sheet is occupied by the image of a river ferry. A man stands in the center, holding the crossbar with his left hand. Next to him, from left to right, are a young woman with a child in her arms, a man holding a horse's bridle, an old man in a wide-brimmed hat, a boy, and a mustached man in a cap with a sack in his hands. In the foreground is a part of a wooden pier with figures of gendarmes standing facing the ferry. Under the image is the author's inscription: "The First Arrest", signed by the author -64". Kuzovkin "The First Arrest". Reg 26722. Inv. 13105. Light creasing of the sheet. In the margins stain of iron disease.
Circumstances:
It was taken out of the Kherson Art Museum by representatives of the russian federation
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Details of theft
Year of the incident:
2022
Place of the incident:
The Oleksii Shovkunenko Kherson Regional Art Museum
Coordinates (Lat, Lon):
46.62979067231111, 32.609546919505945
Place of last known stay:
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Description of the incident location
It was opened on May 27, 1978, in the former City Hall building, an architectural monument of the early 20th century. As of 2022 (before the robbery), the museum's collection included more than 13 thousand works of art and was one of the most interesting museum collections in Ukraine. It includes works of Ukrainian and foreign painting, graphics, sculpture, and decorative and applied arts. From October 31 to November 4, 2022, the Kherson Art Museum was looted by the russian occupiers, and more than 10,000 of its most valuable exhibits were stolen. The cargo was sent to Crimea, and the works (all or part of them) ended up in the Simferopol Central Museum of Tavrida. It is unknown whether everything is still there.
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