Judit Reigl, Abstract Painter Who Broke Away from the Surrealists, Has Died at 97

Judit Reigl, who painted all-over abstractions after cutting ties with André Breton and the Surrealists in Paris, has died at age 97. Reigl’s work Guano (Menhir), 1959–64, figured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Epic Abstraction” exhibition that opened in 2018. 
Born in Kapuvár, Hungary, in 1923, Reigl attended the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest from 1941 to 1946. In 1950, she fled political turmoil in her native country for Paris