Portrait of a father / Portret batka
ID:
5184
Updated:
04.04.2025
Name:
Portrait of a father / Portret batka
Author:
Felix Kider
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1985
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, portrait
Materials:
Fibreboard, oil
Dimensions:
85x120 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1652, КП – 7131
Location of special signs:
On the back of chipboard or on a stretcher frame
Description:
An elderly man (generational image) is sitting in front of a neutral greenish-ochre background, holding a newspaper rolled up in his left hand. The man is wearing a black jacket with orders and medals, dark trousers, a white shirt, and a light ocher tie. The face with large features is elongated, double chin, high forehead, baldness, thick eyebrows, dark eyes, clearly defined lips.
In the lower left corner, in red paint: K.F.; right: 85. Above, right: "Kider Felix Ikhilievich 1938 Portrait of Father (Kider Ikhil Shmulevich, veteran of war and labor) fiberboard. oil on canvas, 121 x 86 cm. exp. 1985. Kherson, 51 Ushakova Ave. Art and Production Workshops".
In the lower left corner, in red paint: K.F.; right: 85. Above, right: "Kider Felix Ikhilievich 1938 Portrait of Father (Kider Ikhil Shmulevich, veteran of war and labor) fiberboard. oil on canvas, 121 x 86 cm. exp. 1985. Kherson, 51 Ushakova Ave. Art and Production Workshops".
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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