EDITOR'S CHOICE

Untitled, ca. 1946. Oil and enamel on composition board, 18 x 14" (45.5 x 35.5 cm). Gift of William Rubin
Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art/The Menil Collection
Why this pioneering abstract painter disappeared from the art world at the height of her fame
Before artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning shot to fame, Janet Sobel was gaining ground as an important abstract painter — but largely disappeared from the art world.

GETTING THEIR DUE

Woman Painter and Her Model (Femme peintre et son modèle), 1921. François Odermatt Collection.
Fondation Foujita/Artists Rights Society, New York/ADAGP, Paris/Christie's/Bridgeman Images/Courtesy Barnes Foundation
The 1920s painter who hid sapphic symbols in her portraits
Mujer saliendo del psicoanalista (Podría ser Juliana) (Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst [Could be Juliana]), 1960.
2023 Remedios Varo
Why Remedios Varo, one of the ‘three witches’ of surrealism, continues to fascinate
MP3JC9 Kiyohara Yukinobu, Japanese, 1643 - 1682; Flying Celestial (Apsaras); second half 17th century; Hanging scroll; Ink, color, and gold on silk; 45 7/8 × 17 5/8 in. (116.52 × 44.77 cm) (image)77 5/16 × 22 1/4 in. (196.37 × 56.52 cm) (mount, without roller); Minneapolis Institute of Art; Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation; L2015.33.70 KiyoharaYukinobu FlyingCelestial MIA L20153370 767 KiyoharaYukinobu FlyingCelestial MIA L20153370
Alamy Stock Photo
The ‘highly accomplished’ female artist who broke boundaries in Edo Japan with exquisite ink paintings
Berg & Høeg, Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg's sister Ingeborg, 1894-1903.
Preus Museum--Norwegian Museum of Photography
A Norwegian couple’s playful, gender-defying portraits were discovered by chance, decades after their deaths
Regina Cordium, Rossetti's 1860 marriage portrait of Elizabeth Siddal
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
She was a 19th-century ‘supermodel.’ Now art historians are course-correcting the short life of Elizabeth Siddal
Smith_Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck_1909 (printed c. 1920-30)
Frances Mulhall Achilles Library; Whitney Museum of American Art
The woman behind the world’s most famous tarot deck fell into obscurity
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This once-enslaved artist was misunderstood for centuries. An exhibition rewrites his story
HRA7AG Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene
Art Collection 2/Alamy
This Victorian painting depicting two women in love was nearly lost in history
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Suzanne Valadon
This rebellious female painter of bold, full-figured nude portraits has been overlooked for a century
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Corita Art Center/Immaculate Heart Community
The Catholic nun who made joyous, politically charged Pop Art
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Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
This 1960s trailblazer of erotic pop art died just as she was finding fame
Evelyne Axell’s paintings of women in utopic landscapes or cheeky advertising-influenced scenes were unlike anything of her era. But she died young and faded into obscurity.

grand reveals

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Selznick/United Artists/Shutterstock
Two art curators had a mystery on their hands. Was an unusual Dalí painting actually his?
05 Johannes Vermeer gemaeldegalerie
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
Vermeer’s ‘hidden’ Cupid is the enigmatic artist’s latest mystery
Paul Cézanne (1839--1906), France, Still Life with Bread and Eggs,1865, oil on canvas, 23 1/4 x 30 in. (59.1 x 76.2 cm), Cincinnati Art Museum;
Courtesy Cincinnati Art Museum
The ‘odd’ secret hidden beneath a Cézanne still life’s surface
The Cincinnati Art Museum's discovery of a 400-year-old "magic mirror" reveals the image of a Buddha when light is shone on it in a particular way.
Rob Deslongchamps/Cincinnati Art Museum
‘Magic mirror’ reflection revealed in centuries-old artifact