Jehudith SobelModern Polish Jewish Pencil Drawing Modernist Landscape, 1960

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Jehudith Sobel (1924-2012 ) Polish/Jewish artist (also known as Judyta Sobel)
Judith Sobel was born in Lwow, Poland in 1924. … Read more Jehudith Sobel (1924-2012 ) Polish/Jewish artist (also known as Judyta Sobel)
Judith Sobel was born in Lwow, Poland in 1924. After Word War II she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland from 1947-1950, where she studied with the famous Abstract Constructivist, Wladyslaw Strzeminski and Stefan Wegner from whom she learned the principles of Modern Art as per the European Cubists. She was also part of the First Exhibit of Modern Art in Krakow in 1948/1949. From Poland she emigrated to Israel, where she exhibited and was collected by the major art museums of Israel including the Museum of Modern Art at Haifa.
In 1956, Sobel came to New York on a scholarship and before that she lived in France for two years. Same year she received the First Prize at the Exhibition in the Saks Gallery in Paris, as well as having a solo exhibit of her paintings at the Brooklyn Jewish Museum in NY. Her career in the New York art world continued with exhibits in the prestigious ACA Gallery, the New Master Gallery, City Collage of New York, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Sobel lived in Manhattan New York and also had a summer house in Woodstock NY, where she was strongly involved with the Woodstock Artist Association and Museum. Her work is in many private collections and museums including the Museum of Modern Art at Lodz, Poland, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and The Jewish Museum (NY) where she had a solo show of her work. See less