Crane on the dam / Krany na hrebli
ID:
5292
Updated:
08.04.2025
Name:
Crane on the dam / Krany na hrebli
Author:
Anatoly Shchukin
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1959
Type:
Graphics
Technique of implementation:
Graphics, industrial landscape
Materials:
Paper, colour lithography
Dimensions:
31,5x43 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Г – 499, КП – 1497
Location of special signs:
On the back on paper
Description:
Industrial landscape in the rain. In the foreground on the left is a tower crane on caterpillars, turned to the center of the composition. In the background is the concrete frame of a dam with three cranes standing on it against the sky. The booms of the cranes are cut off by the upper edge of the sheet. On the left is a welded structure. There are clouds and streams of rain in the sky. On the ground and on the dam are silhouettes of people. Below is a flatbed truck. The ground is covered with puddles with circles diverging on the surface. The work is executed in purple and yellow colors. The image has a monogram in the lower right corner: "ASH", under the image is an inscription in graphite pencil: "From the series 'Construction of the Kremenchuk Hydroelectric Power Plant' Cranes on the dam (linocut)" (left), "A. Shchukin 59" (right).
Along the left edge of the image, on the left there is a tear of 8 cm (glued), on the right there is a tear from the side edge. Lower corners torn off -1 cm and a piece of the right edge - 1 cm, grooves and creasing of the sheet.
Along the left edge of the image, on the left there is a tear of 8 cm (glued), on the right there is a tear from the side edge. Lower corners torn off -1 cm and a piece of the right edge - 1 cm, grooves and creasing of the sheet.
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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