The only consolation / Yеdyna vtikнa
ID:
5290
Updated:
08.04.2025
Name:
The only consolation / Yеdyna vtikнa
Author:
Boris Shats
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1964
Type:
Graphics
Technique of implementation:
Graphics, portrait
Materials:
Paper, colour lithography
Dimensions:
34,5x47 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Г – 497, КП – 1495
Location of special signs:
On the back on paper
Description:
A bust portrait of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. The image is large-scale. Turn of the figure in ¾ to the left. The image of the left shoulder is cropped by the right edge of the sheet. Dressed in a soldier's uniform. The arms are bent at chest level: in the right hand there is an unfinished sculpture, in the left - a stick. Hairstyle - short-cropped hair, combed back, revealing a high forehead and a beginning to bald, thick long mustache. The background is a light wall. To the left is a part of a window under a bar. Printed on light gray and black boards.
On the right side of the page in graphite pencil: "Shatz B.Z. The only consolation, ink 1964." carte-de-visite, reg. 26646 inv. 13092, ink 34.5 x 47". General yellowing of the sheet. Above and right - traces of mounting. In the upper left corner - a groove.
On the right side of the page in graphite pencil: "Shatz B.Z. The only consolation, ink 1964." carte-de-visite, reg. 26646 inv. 13092, ink 34.5 x 47". General yellowing of the sheet. Above and right - traces of mounting. In the upper left corner - a groove.
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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