Anatoliy Halytskyi

Anatoliy Halytskyi is a Ukrainian painter born in 1973 in the village of Vyshnivchyk, Khmelnytskyi region. He studied at the Kamianets-Podilskyi College of Culture and at the Kyiv I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. His first teacher was the painter Anatoliy Fesenko; he also names the art historian Dmytro Horbachov among the figures who shaped his thinking. He signs his international work as Anatole Galitsky.

His painting belongs to a lineage that runs from Kandinsky and de Kooning through to American abstract expressionism, but his canvases are not pure abstractions. They are complicated by pop-art quotation, postmodern citation, and a working-through of European old masters — Dürer, Rubens, Delacroix — pushed into the territory of near-abstraction. The hand is expressive and disciplined at the same time.

In 2017 he ranked seventh on the annual list of the highest-priced Ukrainian artists. He is among the artists who worked with Kyiv's M17 Contemporary Art Center under exclusive institutional representation, alongside Pinchuk, Peremyshlev, and Tomashevskyi.

His work has appeared at auction in London. On 7 December 2017, lot 105 in Phillips's New Now sale — an untitled oil on canvas, 140 × 140 cm, signed Anatole Galitsky 2114 — sold for £6,875, against an estimate of £5,000–7,000. The result placed a large-format work by the artist firmly within the established international market for contemporary Ukrainian painting.

In the years since, the Ukrainian art market has shifted considerably, particularly under the increased international attention drawn to Ukrainian artists from 2022 onward. A canvas of comparable scale and quality today carries a realistic ceiling well above the 2017 result.