Judith Sobel - 'Forest landscape'

Jehudith Sobel (Poland 1924-2012 America)


'Forest landscape'
mixed media on paper
45.5 x 58 cm
signed lower left


After the Second World War, Jehudith Sobel attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, where she was introduced to the principles of modern art, as represented by the European cubists at the time. The young artist's talent was recognized quite quickly and ensured that she in 1948 - at the age of 24 - was selected for an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Kraków in 1948-1949.

Sobel was one of the few in her family to survive the German occupation and the persecution of the Jews. With the memories of the war years still fresh in her mind, she emigrated to the newly founded Jewish state of Israel in the late 1940s. There, Sobel became very active in the emerging art world and her work was exhibited in and purchased by Israel's major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in Haifa.

The travel-loving artist spent more than two years in France during the first half of the 1950s, where she exhibited at Saks Gallery Paris. During this exhibition, Sobel won first prize; with a grant in her pocket, she left for New York in 1956, where she had already her first solo exhibition soon followed; at the Brooklyn Jewish Museum.

The city - the culture - pleased her so much that she decided to move. Once moved, Sobel exhibited in the prestigious ACA Gallery, after which numerous exhibitions followed; in the US but also abroad.

Sobel lived in Manhattan New York and also had a summer home in Woodstock NY where she was closely involved with the Woodstock Artist Association and Museum. Today she is considered one of the finest female artists of the 20th century and someone who has continually used to promote the cultural climate in Poland, Israel and the US. It is her post-impressionist style - influenced by Matisse, Bonnard and Braque - that makes her work so beloved.