Agathe Sorel RWS, RE

Agathe Sorel RWS, RE

born 1935

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Born 1935 Budapest, Hungary

Painter, sculptor and printmaker.

Agathe Sorel trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest before fleeing to England after the Hungarian revolution in 1956. In England, Sorel studied printmaking at Camberwell School of Art, London in 1957. After graduating Sorel went on to Paris where she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, the Sorbonne and then the Atelier 17, where she studied etching under Stanley William Hayter. On her return to England around 1960-61, Sorel established a print workshop in Fulham with her husband, the painter and designer Gabor Sitkey. Sorel also begins teaching at Camberwell and Maidstone Colleges around this time.

Sorel is a founding Member of the Printmakers’ Council and served as Chairman from 1981-1983. As a frequent exhibitor around the world, Sorel was the subject of a major retrospective at Bradford Museum’s Cartwright Hall in 2004. She continues to exhibit today.

The Tate collection holds two examples of her work: Of Biplanes and Catamarans, 1976 (P02335) and The Wise and Foolish Virgin, 1966 (P02336).