Oh, it's good to live in a Soviet country / Ekh, dobre u kraini radianskii zhyty
ID:
5126
Updated:
02.04.2025
Name:
Oh, it's good to live in a Soviet country / Ekh, dobre u kraini radianskii zhyty
Author:
Ivan Starenkov
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1992
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, group portrait
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
89x59 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1399, КП – 6233
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Group portrait of three men sitting and singing. From left to right: a middle-aged bald, round-faced man in a green shirt with his arms folded across his chest. His face, arms, and chest are painted in lilac and purple. In the center is a gray-haired, short-cropped, cheekbone man dressed in purple; he wears a white tie around his neck. To the right, in profile, is a black-haired harmonica player with a sharply set jaw and a long, humped nose, holding a dark red and blue accordion with stretched blades. In the lower right corner is the date and author's signature 92 Starenkov.
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:
Links
Archive links
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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