1888 in art
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The year 1888 in art involved some significant events.
Events
- January 26 – Paul Gauguin leaves Paris to rejoin the Pont-Aven School of artists in Brittany, where he will remain until October and meet with Émile Bernard
- February – Fifth annual exhibition of Les XX, at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. Artists invited to show in addition to members of the group include Henri-Edmond Cross, Albert Dubois-Pillet,[1] Odilon Redon,[2] Paul Signac, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and James McNeill Whistler[3]
- February 21 – Vincent van Gogh moves to Arles where he will be very productive as a painter
- March – Van Gogh begins his Langlois Bridge at Arles series
- March 22 – Fourth exhibition by the Société des Artistes Indépendants opens in Paris; it includes three paintings by van Gogh
- June – Van Gogh visits Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
- July 14
- The Monument à Léon Gambetta, by Jean-Paul Aubé, is inaugurated at the Louvre
- Critic Emile Hennequin drowns at Samois-sur-Seine before his protégé Odilon Redon
- August – Van Gogh begins his Décoration for the Yellow House at Arles including the Arles Sunflowers series of paintings
- August 11 – James McNeill Whistler marries fellow-artist Beatrice ("Trixie") Godwin (née Beatrix Birnie Philip), widow of architect E. W. Godwin, and they spend a working honeymoon in France
- October 3 – Leeds City Art Gallery in England opens
- October 23 – Paul Gauguin joins van Gogh in Arles, bringing Émile Bernard's painting Le Pardon de Pont-Aven
- December 23 – Having quarrelled with Gauguin, van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his own left ear, taking it to a brothel, and is removed to the local hospital
- Paul Ranson, Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis become fellow students at the Académie Julian and form Les Nabis
- The weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic commissions and exhibits in London 21 paintings of Shakespeare's heroines[4]
- William De Morgan moves his London art pottery from Merton Abbey to Fulham
- Publication in English of Irish-born writer George Moore's autobiographical novel Confessions of a Young Man (London) describing bohemian life in 1870s Paris among the Impressionist painters
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Exhibitions
Works
- Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Roses of Heliogabalus
- Reinhold Begas – Centaur and Nymph (bronze)
- Émile Bernard
- Le Pardon de Pont-Aven ("Breton Women in the Meadow")
- Brothel Scene, for Vincent (watercolor)
- Self-portrait with portrait of Paul Gauguin
- The Yellow Tree
- Joseph Boehm
- Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington (Hyde Park Corner, London)
- Queen Victoria Statue (College Green, Bristol)
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau – The First Mourning
- Edward Burne-Jones – The Nativity
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Charles Calverley - Statue of Robert Burns (Albany, New York)
- Émile Friant - La Toussaint
- Philip Hermogenes Calderon – Juliet
- William Merritt Chase
- The Blue Kimono
- Modern Magdalen
- Portrait of a Lady in Pink
- Charles Conder – A holiday at Mentone
- David Edward Cronin – Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia
- Édouard Detaille – Le Rêve
- Alexander Doyle – William Jasper Monument
- James Ensor – The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu)
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela – Démasquée
- Paul Gauguin
- Alfred Gilbert – Statue of Queen Victoria (Winchester)
- Antonio Gisbert Pérez - Execution of Torrijos and his Companions on the Beach at Málaga
- Peder Severin Krøyer – Hip, Hip, Hurrah!
- Frederic Leighton – Captive Andromache (approximate date)
- William Logsdail – St Martin-in-the-Fields
- Cesare Maccari – Cicero Denounces Catiline (fresco in Palazzo Madama, Rome)
- Albert Joseph Moore – A River Side
- Philip Richard Morris – Audrey
- Giovanni Muzzioli – The Funeral of Britannicus
- Ilya Repin
- Paul Sérusier – Le Talisman
- Georges Seurat – completion of Models (Les Poseuses) (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia)
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – At the Circus Fernando, Equestrienne
- Henry Scott Tuke – The Bathers
- Giovanni Turini – Statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi (bronze, Washington Square Park, New York City)
- John Henry Twachtman – Landscape, Branchville
- J. W. Waterhouse – The Lady of Shalott
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- Vincent van Gogh
- Boats at Saintes-Maries-De-La-Mer (June)
- Harvest (at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background) (June)
- Corn Harvest in Provence
- Farmhouse in Provence
- La Mousmé
- Sunset at Montmajour (August)
- Cafe Terrace at Night (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo) (September)
- The Night Café (September)
- The Yellow House (September)
- Bedroom in Arles (first version; October)
- The Red Vineyard (November)
- The Sower (Sower with the Setting Sun) (June)
- Tarascon Diligence (October 12)
- Vincent's Chair and Gauguin's Armchair (November)
- Les Arènes (November or December)
Births
- January 1 – Augustus Dunbier, American painter (died 1977).
- January 17 – Mohamed Nagy, Egyptian painter (died 1956).
- February 22 – Horace Pippin, self-taught African-American painter (died 1946).
- March 12 - Eric Kennington, English sculptor and painter (died 1960).
- March 14 – Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Canadian painter (died 1970).
- March 19 – Josef Albers, German artist, mathematician and educator (died 1976).
- April 6 – Hans Richter, German painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer (died 1976).
- June – David Dougal Williams, English painter (died 1944).
- June 12 – Tom Purvis, English poster artist (died 1959).
- July 10 – Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter (died 1978).
- August 13 – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (died 1975).
- August 14 – Sydney Carline, English painter, war artist (died 1929).
- August 30 – Siri Derkert, Swedish artist, sculptor and political campaigner (died 1973).
- September 4 – Oskar Schlemmer, German sculptor, painter, designer and choreographer (died 1943).
- November 1 – George Kenner, German artist (died 1971)
- November 7 – Mariano Andreu, Spanish painter, enamelling master, sculptor and stage designer (died 1976).
- November 11 – Johannes Itten, Swiss colour theorist, painter and designer (died 1967).
- Stanley Royle, English post-impressionist landscape painter (died 1961).
Deaths
- January 13 – John William Inchbold, pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1830)
- January 29 – Edward Lear, painter, illustrator and humorous writer (born 1812)
- February 5 – Anton Mauve, painter (born 1838)
- March 15 – Léonard Morel-Ladeuil, goldsmith and sculptor (born 1820)
- May 30 – Louis Buvelot, Swiss-Australian painter (born 1814)
- June 18 – Luigi Mussini, painter (born 1813)
- July 31 – Frank Holl, painter (born 1845)
- August 23 – Philip Henry Gosse, naturalist and illustrator (born 1810)
- August 30 – George O'Brien, engineer and painter (born 1821)
- September 28 – Thomas Gambier Parry, artist and art collector (born 1816)
- October – Frank O'Meara, Irish painter (born 1853)
- November 20 – Nathaniel Currier, illustrator (born 1813)
- date unknown
- Alexander Joseph Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (born 1818)
- Nam Gye-u, Korean painter and government official (born 1811)
Awards
References
- ^ Turner, Jane (2000). The Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford University Press. p. 434. ISBN 978-0-312-22971-9. Retrieved 2009-12-22.
- ^ Walther, Ingo F.; Suckle, Robert; Wundram, Manfred (2002). Masterpieces of Western Art. Vol. 1. Cologne: Taschen. p. 760. ISBN 978-3-8228-1825-1. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
- ^ Schwartz, Manuela (2006). Vincent d'Indy et son temps. Mardaga. p. 391. ISBN 978-2-87009-888-2. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
- ^ "The Graphic and Shakespeare's Heroines". Emory University. Archived from the original on 2012-11-09. Retrieved 2013-11-07.