ANNA STARITSKY / OIL ON CANVAS AND COLLAGE CIRCA60

Born in 1908 in Poltava into a family of Russian and Ukrainian intelligentsia. In 1921, after his mother's death, he moved to Moscow to live with his aunt and took painting classes with V. Favorsky and T. Soukhotina-Tolstaïa. Soukhotina-Tolstaïa. In 1925, under the pretext of treating his tuberculosis, he went abroad. In 1926-1931, attended courses at the Sofia Academy of Arts. In 1932, he moved to Brussels and attended the Ecole supérieure d'arts décoratifs, where he studied advertising painting, illustration and publishing. Until 1940, she worked as a designer at Wellenns & Godenne, Tillbury Press, Celys Advertising Agency and Société Lever, painting a series of portraits. After the war, she moved to France with her husband, the Belgian painter Orix, and lived in Nice until 1951. Joined the "Nice School". From 1951 to 1956 takes part in the Salons des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris. Settles in Paris in 1952, takes part in group exhibitions and salons, creates a series of poem-objects. In the early 1960s, made several trips to the USSR (Moscow and Leningrad). Author of gouaches illustrating poems by M. Tsvetaeva, E. Bagritsky, S. Kirsanov, L. Martynov, E. Evtouchenko and R. Rojdesvensky. In 1975, he illustrated several books by Michel Butor. From 1978 until his death in 1981 takes part in group and solo exhibitions.
Public collections :

Center national des arts plastiques, Paris.
Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Musée d'Art Moderne, Ville de Paris.
Picasso Museum, Antibes.
Musée des Beaux Arts, Bordeaux.
Museum of Grenoble.
Museum of Contemporary Arts - Grand-Hornu.
Museum of Fine Arts, Nantes.
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nice.
Musée des Beaux-arts de Rennes.
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Musée royal des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.
Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven Collection

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