The Long Arm of Coincidence: Selections from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection

The Long Arm of Coincidence: Selections from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection at Pace/MacGill Gallery. "...The exhibition features over 30 photographs, paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by renowned Surrealist and Dada artists including Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Lee Miller, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, and Dorothea Tanning.
Characterized by inventive visual explorations into the irrational and subconscious, Dada and Surrealism captured the art world’s attention in the early twentieth century. In the decades immediately following World War II, however, interest in these artistic movements waned. Despite their relative obscurity in the 1950s and early 1960s, the predominantly European artists comprising these groups continued to pursue their aesthetic ideals. It was during this time that Rosalind Jacobs née Gersten became acquainted with these creative communities. As a fashion buyer for the Little Shop boutique at Macy’s department store in Manhattan, Jacobs frequently traveled to Paris. A chance invitation in 1954 to meet William and Noma Copley, ardent supporters of the Surrealists, resulted in lifelong friendships with some of the twentieth-century avant-garde’s most notable members."