Ukrainian artist Alexander Roitburd discovered the "Russian trace" in the history of Jeff Koons sculpture, which turned out to be plagiarism of the Ukrainian artwork.

Alexander Roitburd stressed that the author of the porcelain figurine "Seated ballerina", Ukrainian porcelain painter Oksana Zhnikrup, has heirs who own copyrights, and invited the state to sue the American sculptor Jaff Koons.

"Here Lado Pochkhua found the source of inspiration for the new sculpture by Jeff Koons, set in New York. This is a statuette of the Ukrainian porcelain painter Oksana Zhnikup (1931- 1993), a graduate of Odessa's Grekov College, who worked in Kiev. In contrast to the respected Lado, I do not consider Koons worthless. And I'm even glad that he is so popular with Ukrainian art. I hope he indicated the source? If I forgot, then I would recommend to the state of Ukraine to file a suit against him. Oksana Zhnikrup's copyright is still in effect, she seems to have heirs. The process can be loud, like the immortal name of Koons. And there will be no PR for the country - America will be surprised to find out that we have not only war and corruption, but also art, "wrote Roitburd.

Later, the artist added to his post update, which said that in history there was a "Russian trace": the original authorship of the figure, the Americans attributed to the Russian.

"It turns out that it is written that" Koons reimagined Seated Ballerina from a porcelain figurine of a ballerina "(" Koons reproduced the "Sitting Ballerina" from a porcelain figurine found in a Russian factory on The turn of the 20th century "- Red. Russian factory, Carl! Zrada! ", - wrote Roitburd.

The post received more than 1,6 thousand.

Likes and about 400 publications.

In the comments, the users were offered to confiscate the sculpture in favor of Ukraine and condemned Koons.

Elena Korus said that Oksana Zhnikrup's copyrights were sold, but she did not specify who exactly.

As reported by the "Observer", an American artist Jeff Koons created a ballerina sculpture, which can be plagiarism of the porcelain figurine of the Ukrainian masters.

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