Agathe Sorel

Agathe Sorel (born 1935, Budapest)[1] is a London-based artist of Hungarian descent, specializing in painting, sculpture, printmaking and livres d’artiste.[2] She is a Member of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, as well as a founding member of the Printmakers Council and was its Chairman in 1981-1983.[3] She was one of the first artists who experimented with making objects and sculptures using print techniques.[4]

Life

Agathe Sorel was born in 1935 in Budapest.[5] She studied at the Academy of Applied Arts and Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest.[2] In 1956, she left Hungary with her mother because of the anti-Soviet revolution and settled in England.[1] The same year she enrolled at the Camberwell School of Art in London.[5] At Camberwell she spent about a year and a half and met many interesting artists there, including Michael Rothenstein, Robert Medley, R.B. Kitaj, Heinz Inlander, Julian Trevelyan, and Anthony Gross.[1] In 1958 Sorel won Gulbenkian Scholarship and moved to Paris for two years to study at the Ecoles des Beaux Arts, the Sorbonne and etching under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17.[5]

Career

After returning to London in 1960, Sorel set up her own studio in Fulham with her husband, painter and designer Gabor Sitkey, and began teaching at Camberwell and Maidstone Colleges.[6] In 1965, she became a founding member of the Printmaker’s Council.[3] The following year, in 1966, Sorel won a Churchill fellowship to travel to the United States and Mexico.[1] After that, she became interested in working with transparent materials and the use of Perspex allowed her to combine line engraving properties with 3D forms.[5] Most of her sculpture is engineered Perspex with both hand and machine engraving.[4]

In 1981-1983 Sorel chaired the Printmaker’s Council.[3]

In collaboration with the poet David Gascoyne Sorel made an artist book The Book of Sand published in 2001.[7] The book was a mixture of poetry and printed drawings.[4]

Her work was featured in several exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Bankside Gallery.[8]

Exhibitions (selection)
  • 1965 – Solo show at Curwen Gallery, London
  • 1967 – Exhibition at the Ben Uri Gallery, London
  • 1968 – Solo show at Philadelphia Print Club
  • 1974 – Line in Space by Agathe Sorel, Camden Arts Centre
  • 1975 – Solo show at Oxford University Press
  • 1978 – Solo show at Robertson Galleries, Ottawa
  • 1980 – Solo show at the Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 1989 – Space Engravings & other works by Agathe Sorel, Herbert Read Gallery, Kent Institute of Art & Design; touring to the Intaglio Printmaker Gallery, London and Paul Kovesdy Gallery, New York, 1990; Trumpington Gallery, Cambridge, 1991; Malargalleriet, Stockholm, 1992; Galerie Geiger Kornwestheim, 1993; Stadtische Galerie, Filderstadt, Stuttgart, 1995
  • 2000/2002 – Solo shows at Galerie La Hune, Paris
  • 2002 – Catalana Blanca, Bankside Gallery, London
  • 2003 – The Book of Sand, Bankside Gallery, London
  • 2004 – Retrospective Bradford Museum Cartwright Hall
  • 2005 – Livres d’artiste at the Bradford Museum Cartwright Hall
  • 2006 – Solo exhibition at Lawrence Graham LLP London
  • 2009 – Solo exhibition at the Nehru Centre, London
  • 2012 – Solo exhibition at the Bradford Museum, Cartwright Hall

Collections (selection)
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References
  1. McNay, Anna. "Agathe Sorel interview: 'I never have an idea in advance, even now. Experimentation spreads through all my work'". Studio International - Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  2. "Agathe Sorel biography". Royal Watercolour Society. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  3. "BBC - Radio 4 - Radio and the Artist - Agathe Sorel". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  4. Tala, Alexia (2009-03-30). Installations and Experimental Printmaking. A&C Black. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-7136-8807-8.
  5. "Agathe Sorel. A Retrospective". Wall Street International. 2014-09-25. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  6. "Agathe Sorel RWS, RE – People – Southwark Heritage". heritage.southwark.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  7. Sorel, Agathe; Gascoyne, David; Studio of Contemporary Art (2001). The book of sand = Le livre du sable. London: Studio of Contemporary Art. OCLC 500127413.
  8. "Agathe Sorel | Art Auction Results". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  9. Tate. "Agathe Sorel born 1935". Tate. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  10. "Troubled Square | Sorel, Agatha | V&A Search the Collections". V and A Collections. 2020-03-06. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  11. "Collections Online, Agathe Sorel". British Museum. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  12. "Agathe Sorel | Artists | Collection | British Council − Visual Arts". visualarts.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  13. "Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : The Queen". www.philamuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  14. "Starlet". collections.mfa.org. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  15. Harvard. "Harvard Art Museums". www.harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  16. "Agathe Sorel". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  17. "Gregory Allicar Museum of Art - Everyday Irreality". uamcollection.libarts.colostate.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  18. "Sorel Agathe". MoCA Skopje. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  19. [Recueil. Documentation sur Agathe Sorel].
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