Piguet
Composition
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Composition,
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2017-09-27
Published result : 900 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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Anna Staritsky
Born : 1908Died : 1981Documented citizenships : Belgium
A Belgian or Russian-Belgian artist of Ukrainian origin, Ania Staritsky moves across several fields of artistic practice: after painting figurative portraits in Brussels, she breaks with figuration in Paris and turns to abstraction. She settles in Brussels in 1932 and works there until 1940 as an advertising artist, illustrator and designer, while completing her training at the Higher Institute of Decorative Arts of La Cambre. In 1941, she meets Guillaume Hoorickx, known as Bill Orix; both are arrested by the Gestapo in 1942. After the war, she settles in France with Hoorickx, first in Nice and then in Paris, where she establishes her permanent home in 1952. She takes part in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, where she exhibits from 1951 to 1956.
Her abstract work combines, among other things, the practice of collage, using crumpled paper, wood or stones, with an interest in wood engraving and lithography, which she takes an interest in from the 1960s onwards. Book illustration also remains part of her practice: in 1947, she illustrates, among other works, The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin, and in 1950, three volumes of Ronsard’s Amours. She also collaborates on artists’ books with poets such as Michel Butor, Eugène Guillevic and Pierre-Albert Birot.
Among the documented solo exhibitions are those at Galerie Numaga in Auvernier-Neuchâtel in 1967 and Galerie Melisa in Lausanne in 1976. In 1989, a donation of her paintings is made to the Musée de Grenoble. More recently, the Manoir des livres devoted the exhibition “Ania Staritsky, ‘L’éclat d’un œil’” to her work. It was presented from 28 October 2023 to 24 February 2024 and included, among other things, artists’ books, maquettes and prints.
This profile brings together identity references for Anna Staritsky and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
5 references are documented at Germann, Piguet, DognyAuction. Each record links to its source; the amounts are not a general valuation of the artist’s work.
Works recorded at auction
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DognyAuction · Lot 340
Abstract composition
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Composition abstraite
huile sur toile
Attribution ou qualification signalée dans le catalogue
Catalogue period : 2025-10-21
Attribution recorded in catalogue
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 600–800
View the lot at the auction house ↗DognyAuction · Lot 180
Anna STARITSKY (1908/11-1981), 'Composition abstraite', huile
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Anna STARITSKY (1908/11-1981), 'Composition abstraite', huile
huile sur toile
Attribution ou qualification signalée dans le catalogue
Catalogue period : 2024-06-26
Attribution recorded in catalogue
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 1000–2000
View the lot at the auction house ↗DognyAuction · Lot 230
Composition
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Composition
huile sur toile
Attribution ou qualification signalée dans le catalogue
Catalogue period : 2024-02-09
Attribution recorded in catalogue
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 1000–2000
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Germann
2 sheets: Untitled
Each: mixed media and collage on paper
Original catalogue wording
2 Blätter: Sans titre
Je Mischtechnik und Collage auf Papier.
lot groupé : prix global
Date to be documented
Grouped lot: total price
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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- LoC · Public domain (id.loc.gov authority metadata; link only)
- Documentary source
- Documentary source
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Documentation updated : 2026-10-19