Anna Staritsky, Personnages, 1968

Anna Staritsky, Personnages, 1968. Original collage artwork themes around protest in France.
Anna Staritsky, Personnages, 1968. Original collage artwork themes around protest in France.

Technical Information:

Medium: oil, gouache, collage on paper

Size: 70 by 47 cm

Signature: ‘Staritsky 68’ on lower right, further signed on verso.

Provenance:

The Artist; Private collection, France; Private collection, Europe.

Additional Information:

Anna Staritsky's experiments with collages in the late 1960s and 70s revolve around her memories of Ukraine and her strong spiritual connection to Ukrainian culture. Roughly defined characters occupy the space of this collage, reduced to near attraction: a pair of eyes on a blank face, a profile with an open mouth, a raised fist, a hand holding a note. In the context of Cold-War Europe, these actions may symbolise pretest and political dissidence.