Willow / Verba
ID:
5102
Updated:
28.03.2025
Name:
Willow / Verba
Author:
Alexander Kalinsky
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1991
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape
Materials:
Canvas on cardboard, oil
Dimensions:
50x35 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1374, КП – 6149
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Architectural landscape. In the foreground, to the left, is a large spreading green willow tree. In the background, on a hill overgrown with grass, is a white church with three semicircular apses on the left and two narthexes on the right, covered by a gable roof and topped with a green onion head on a high drum. A light path leads from the middle of the foreground to the depths, to the right, to a brown gate, and to the left are two magpies. In the center, near the church walls are four female figures. The sky is gray-blue. In the lower right corner is the monogram "KS 91." On the back - At the top right is the author's inscription: "Kalynskyi Olexandr Olexandrovych b. 1945. Kherson (35x60) c. h. m. 1991"; left: "Willow - H. glued to cardboard, oil 1991".
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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