MEASURMENTS:30"HX42"W FRAMED, MINT CONDITION/"in the style of"Janet Sobel, born Jennie Olechovsky, was a Ukrainian-born American Abstract Expressionist painter whose career started mid-life, at age forty-five in 1938. Sobel pioneered the drip painting technique that directly influenced Jackson Pollock. Janet Sobel was born as Jennie Olechovsky in 1893 in Katerynoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipro, Ukraine). Her father, Baruch Olechovsky,[4] was killed in a Russian pogrom. Sobel along with her mother, Fannie Kinchuk, a midwife,and siblings moved to Ellis Island in New York City in 1908. At sixteen years of age, she married Max Sobel with whom she had five children.She was the mother of five children when she began painting in 1937. She produced both non-objective abstractions and figurative artwork. Upon recognizing Sobel's talent, her son helped her artistic development and shared her work with émigré surrealists, Max Ernst, André Breton, as well as John Dewey and Sidney Janis. /Private collection, no documentation.