Spring / Vesna
ID:
4913
Updated:
10.02.2025
Name:
Spring / Vesna
Author:
Boris Yakovlev
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1952
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape
Materials:
Cardboard, oil
Dimensions:
37x50 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1442, КП – 4668
Location of special signs:
On the back on cardboard or on a stretcher.
Description:
Forest landscape. The horizon line is lowered with the image of a wall of thin tree trunks. From the foreground, deep into the composition, there is a light green clearing, with young trees with light green leaves on both sides; to the left is a stump, behind it are several dark green spruces, which cast a shadow (right). The sky is blue with whitish-ochre clouds. At the bottom, on the left, the author's signature in black paint with the date, and a monogram in the right corner. On the back, at the top, in graphite pencil: "Boris Yakovlev - 'Spring' 52". On the left is a cipher: KHEM - 3 sq. 396 zh-307 - crossed out in red paint; right: KMRM zh-115 (crossed out with black paint). In the left corner with red paint: NKO KHM zh-282 kp-295 - crossed out. There are uneven losses of the paint layer over the entire surface.
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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