The Attraction of Pink
Date
(1945)
Artist
Janet Sobel, American, b. Dnipro, Ukraine, 1894–1968
Provenance
Estate of the artist, 1968-17 December 1999
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund and Gift of Sol and Leah Sobel, 1999
Exhibition History
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM, ART OF THIS CENTURY, New York. "Paintings of Janet Sobel," 2-19 January 1946, no. 20 [dated 1945].
Published References
GIBSON, ANN EDEN. Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), fig. 19, pp. 22-23 [color plate, dated c. 1944].
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On View
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund and Gift of Sol and Leah Sobel, 1999
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
99.33
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil, enamel, and lacquer on canvas
Dimensions
70 × 32 in. (177.8 × 81.3 cm)
