Spring 1945 / Vesna 1945
ID:
4903
Updated:
10.02.2025
Name:
Spring 1945 / Vesna 1945
Author:
Suren Safaryan
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1964
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, genre painting
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
175x146 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1448, КП – 4701
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Against the background of thin tree trunks, a young soldier is lying on the ground, with a nurse kneeling in front of him. The man is lying on his back, his left hand behind his head, his right hand on his chest, over the girl's hand. The man's right leg in the boot is bent. His head and left leg are bandaged. He is dressed in a leotard and blue pants. The girl in 3/4 turn to the left is wearing a white unbuttoned robe over a black skirt and a leotard. She is wearing a white medical cap. In the distance, to the left behind the trees, there is a building with a gable roof. The work is in lilac colors in the background, greenish-blue in the foreground. In the upper left corner of the canvas is an author's inscription in Armenian, in the right: "Suren Sarkisovich Safaryan Rod. 1913 "In the Spring of 1945" 146 x 175 cm 1964. Yerevan." On the crosspiece: "KHEM-3 KP- 366. Ж-302". In the lower left corner of the stretcher there is a sticker "Armenia..." (the number is torn off). Minor warping in the lower left corner. The image of the girl's left ear has a dent with a loss of the paint layer of 0.5×2 cm. On the back are patches: 1 at the top, 1 in the middle, 2 at the bottom right. At the top, left, there are traces of a sticker.
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:
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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