Форум по искусству и инвестициям в искусство - "The Icon" Tymoshenko wants to sell for 100,000 euros

On the eBay auction for sale " icon " with a picture of the ex- premier Yulia Tymoshenko .
Lot price is 100,000 euros.

The author of the ad is Italian Antonio Matragrano. He pointed out that the work is done in the technique of collage. The canvas size is 60 by 50 centimeters. To date, the ad was viewed more than four thousand people.

As wrote « Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine", Matragrano wrote " icon " with Tymoshenko in August this year. All in all, the artist dedicated to former Ukrainian Prime Minister some of his works . In one of them she is depicted with a halo in the other - in prison.

Yulia Tymoshenko was arrested in 2011 , a year after coming to power, her political opponents Viktor Yanukovych and his Party of Regions. The court sentenced her to seven years in prison on charges of abuse of office when signing gas contracts with Russia . To the former head of the government were instituted , and other criminal cases . She herself denies the charges, claiming that she is being persecuted for political reasons.

West has repeatedly demanded that the Ukrainian authorities to release former prime minister. Representatives of the European Union, in particular, argued that the decision of this question depends on the fate of the Association Agreement EU that Ukraine plans to sign in November. As one of the options offered to release Tymoshenko so-called « partial pardon ». Itself condemned , according to its supporters , I agree to follow the plan "for the sake of European integration of Ukraine ».