The Gallery of Everything presents « Sobel: I am a Surrealist », an overview of works spanning the artist’s career, including works on paper, paintings, and other material from both her classical and more experimental phases.

Janet Sobel (1893 – 1968, Russia) is one of the unsung heroines of 20th century art. After emigrating to the United States in her teens, Sobel started painting only when she was in her 50s. Her self-taught decorative motifs combined figurative memory painting with folk art, and soon caught the attention of legendary curator and dealer, Sidney Janis. Exhibitions followed at Norlyst Gallery and Puma Gallery In 1944, and Peggy Guggenheim’s Art Of This Century in 1946. Relentlessly inventive, Sobel evolved a unique form of abstract expressionism, encompassing her works in an all-over composition of drips. Exhibitions include Abstract Expressionism (2017) at Royal Academy (London), Women In Abstraction (2021) at Centre Pompidou (Paris), and Janet Sobel: All Over (2024), at Menil Collection (Houston). Collections include MoMA (NY), Centre Pompidou (Paris), and more.