The Kherson museum identified three paintings taken by the occupiers to Crimea. PHOTO
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The Oleksiy Shevkunenko Kherson Art Museum has identified three more paintings from its collection that were stolen by the Russian occupiers and taken to the temporarily occupied Crimea. Read UP.Kultura in Telegram. The museum staff reported this on their Facebook page. They identified these exhibits with the help of a photo from the Simferopol Central Tavrida Museum. They were made on April 1, 2023, during the signing of the so-called “agreement” on the storage of stolen works of art there. “We turn again to the photo from Simferopol, on which the list of stolen works was found. … Several more works were deducted from the list, which are now 100% illegally located in the occupied Crimea,” the museum reported. The paintings were identified thanks to the photos of the occupiers. Photo: Kherson Art Museum / Facebook This time we managed to identify the following works from the collection of the Kherson Art Museum: the painting “Park” (1959) by the Kherson painter and graphic artist Ivan Hopkal, the work “Paris. Boulevard Madeleine” (1967) by the Ukrainian painter, one of Oleksiy’s students Shovkunenko, Mykhailo Chepyk and the graphic work “Boats” (1979) by another student of Oleksiy Shovkunenko, Yuriy Balikov. Ivan Hopkalo, “Park”. Photo: Kherson Art Museum / Facebook Mykhailo Chepyk, “Paris. Boulevard Madeleine”. Photo: Kherson Art Museum / Facebook Yuriy Balikov, “Boats”. Photo: Kherson Art Museum / Facebook “This is not the end of the museum quest. There will be more,” Kherson museum workers added. Two weeks ago, the Kherson Art Museum identified two paintings stolen by the Russian occupiers: the painting by the Latvian artist Karlis Dobrais “Restorers” (1962), donated by the author to the museum in Kherson in 2017, and the painting by the Ukrainian artist Leonid Labenko “In the Hills” (1969). Russian soldiers looted the Kherson museum at the beginning of November last year. The occupiers removed items from the collection in trucks accompanied by armed men in civilian clothes for four days. Natalya Desyatova, the “director” appointed by the occupiers, was in charge of the “evacuation”. Subsequently, the paintings from the Kherson Museum “lit up” in the Simferopol Art Museum, they were recognized by the director of the Kherson Museum, Alina Dotsenko. And after the retreat from Kherson, the Russians also shelled the museum. Read also: “If it weren’t for the collaborators, we would have saved the museum from the Russians.” Interview with the director of the Kherson Art Museum
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