About Jehudith Sobel

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Judyta Sobel
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    JEHUDITH SOBEL was born in Poland and was raised and educated there. She attended the Academy of Fine Art in Lodz, Poland where she studied with the famous Abstract Constructivists, Wladyslaw Streminski (Malevich's assistant) and Stefan Wegner from whom she learned the principles of Modern Art as laid down by the European Cubists; this was in the 1940s.

    From Poland she moved to the newly-founded Israel where she was very active in that country's emerging art world. She both exhibited and was collected by the five major art museums of Israel including the Museum of Modern Art at Haifa. She was also regularly shown in Israeli galleries before coming to New York in 1956. (She won a First Prize from the Israeli Government for her work w...

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