Judit Reigl obituary

Hungarian artist who subverted ideas around gender in her large, gestural paintingsIn her interview for Art Press International’s special Women’s Day issue, March 1977, the artist Judit Reigl, who has died aged 97, recalled her dangerous escape from Hungary to Paris in 1950: her ninth attempt. She walked over a minefield at night, with the aid of a ladder placed on the ground, hoping to reach the express train from Budapest; the small yellow-orange squares of light, flashing in the b