Janet Sobel and the 20th Century Women

3 Oct-21 Nov 2021

Overview

The Gallery of Everything invites you to visit Janet Sobel: 20th Century Woman at its Chiltern Street gallery, with over 30 astonishing works on paper by the acclaimed/reclaimed figuratist, impressionist, surrealist and abstract expressionist.

Janet Sobel: 20th Century Woman follows the artist’s critical inclusion in: Women In Abstraction at Centre Pompidou in Paris (2021), curated by Christine Macel; Outliers and American Vanguard Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and LACMA in Los Angeles (2017), curated by Lynne Cooke, and; Abstract Expressionism at the Royal Academy in London (2016), curated by Dr David Anfam and Edith Devaney.

Jackson Pollock may have broken the ice, in Willem de Kooning’s well known phrase, but Janet Sobel definitely helped crack it.  [Roberta Smith, art critic 2002]

Janet Sobel will probably eventually be known as one of the most important surrealist artists in this country. [Sidney Janis, gallerist, 1946]

Everything she made is shot through with a great tenderness towards humanity. [Jennifer Higgie, writer/curator 2021]

Her work is extraordinarily free from imitativeness and from self-consciousness and pretense. [John Dewey, philosopher 1944]

The best woman painter by far in America. [Peggy Guggenheim, collector, 1944]

Pollock told me, in 1948 when he saw his first Tobey, that he thought your mother was better. [Clement Greenberg, art critic 1971]

I’m a surrealist. I paint what I feel within me. [Janet Sobel, artist 1946]

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