Blacksmith M. Shchavinsky / Koval M. Shchavynskyi
ID:
5116
Updated:
01.04.2025
Name:
Blacksmith M. Shchavinsky / Koval M. Shchavynskyi
Author:
Lazar Stirmer
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1977
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, portrait
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
90x120 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1389, КП – 6190
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
A young worker stands in front of a blacksmith's furnace. The image is given in a 3/4 rotation to the right, cut off below the knees by the edge of the painting. He is dressed in a dark brown shirt with a long light brown apron over it. He wears a black beret on his head and black gloves on his hands. In his right hand he holds a pair of blacksmith's tongs on an anvil. In the lower left corner is the author's signature: LST - 77. On the back - In the upper left corner: USSR State Prize winner blacksmith M. Shchavynsky 1977 size 120x90 Styrmyr Lazar S. 1922 Kherson. Sagging canvas, deformation in the upper part. At the top right - a dent on the reverse side; in this place damage to the paint layer, craquelure in the area. Below, a 1×0.5 paint layer falling off, restored by the author. At the left edge above the middle there is craquelure, two dents with damage to the paint layer and soil.
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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