Little Taras and the Chumaks / Malenkyi Taras ta Cнumaky
ID:
5281
Updated:
08.04.2025
Name:
Little Taras and the Chumaks / Malenkyi Taras ta Cнumaky
Author:
Ivan Filonov
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1961
Type:
Graphics
Technique of implementation:
Graphics, plot picture
Materials:
Paper, etching, aquatint
Dimensions:
49x30,5 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Г – 487, КП – 1485
Location of special signs:
On the back on paper
Description:
Horizontal composition. A steppe landscape with a high horizon line. A loaded cart with a pair of oxen is moving along the diagonal of the composition (from right to left). Almost in the center, a man is walking next to the cart. He is wearing a wide-brimmed hat, a white shirt, and pants. He is filling a pipe. His gaze is directed at a barefoot boy in white clothes standing by the road with his left profile facing the viewer.
A graphite pencil is drawn under the image in the lower left: "Little Taras and the Chumaks", the author's signature and the year on the right: "61 р.". On the back, lower right, in graphite pencil: "Filonov I.N. Little Taras and the Chumaks".
General yellowing of the sheet, traces of iron bacteria on the white field.
A graphite pencil is drawn under the image in the lower left: "Little Taras and the Chumaks", the author's signature and the year on the right: "61 р.". On the back, lower right, in graphite pencil: "Filonov I.N. Little Taras and the Chumaks".
General yellowing of the sheet, traces of iron bacteria on the white field.
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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