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ANNA STARITSKY (1908-1981) A fierce beast

Lotto 163
200250
signed in pencil ‘Staritsky’ (lower right), numbered ‘7/20’ (lower center), titled in Cyrillic ‘Luty zvir’ (on the reverse) stencil on paper 65.5 x 50.5 cm PROVENANCE: Collection of Igor Dichenko (Ihor Dychenko) (1946-2015), Soviet and Ukrainian collector, art historian, and painter; one of the ideologists of the Ukrainian avant-garde, Kyiv. Private collection, 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.


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