ANNA STARITSKY (1908-1981) A fierce beast
Lot 163
200250
signé au crayon ‘Staritsky’ (en bas à droite), numéroté ‘7/20’ (en bas au centre),
titré en cyrillique ‘Luty zvir’ (au verso)
pochoir sur papier
65,5 x 50,5 cm
PROVENANCE :
Collection d’Igor Dichenko (Ihor Dychenko) (1946-2015), collectionneur, historien de l’art et peintre soviétique et ukrainien ; l’un des idéologues de l’avant-garde ukrainienne, Kiev.
Collection privée, Europe
Anna Staritsky is a Ukrainian-born Belgian-French painter, sculptor and engraver.
Anna Staritsky grew up in an intellectual and artistic milieu influenced by Konstantin Yuon and Vladimir Favorsky. In 1925, at seventeen, she left Soviet Russia for France to treat a chronic health condition. After studying at the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts, she moved to Brussels in 1932 and completed her training at La Cambre, later working as an illustrator.
In 1941, she married Belgian painter Guillaume Hooricks (Bill Orix), active in the Nazi resistance. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1942, Hooricks was deported to Mauthausen, while Staritsky spent four months in prison.