The Russians stole the painting «Carols» from the Kherson Art Museum
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- Alona Kokhanchuk
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15:50, 20 March, 2024
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Picture «Carols». Photo of the Kherson Art MuseumThe Russians stole the painting by the Ukrainian artist Mykola Pymonenko «Carols» from the Kherson Art Museum.
The museum announced this on Facebook.
It is indicated that the occupiers removed the painting from the Kherson museum in early November 2022, the location of the Ukrainian work is currently unknown.
Mykola Pymonenko is a famous Ukrainian artist, pupil and teacher of the Kyiv Drawing School. He created landscape and domestic compositions. He exhibited his works in Berlin, Paris and London. His works received gold medals at exhibitions in the Salon de Paris and were purchased by the Louvre.
Earlier, the director of the Crimean Tavryda Central Museum, Andrii Malhin, confirmed the information that about 10,000 paintings removed from the Kherson Art Museum are «in storage» in Crimea.
We will remind that in June 2023, the Kherson Art Museum named after Oleksii Shevkunenko identified three more paintings from its collection, which the Russian occupiers stole and took to the temporarily occupied Crimea.
