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1926 in art

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Events

  • Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even is accidentally broken.
  • Marjorie Watson-Williams moves to Paris and adopts the name Paule Vézelay.
  • Awards

  • Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Silk and Lace
  • Works

  • Max Beckmann – Quappi in Blue
  • H. Chalton Bradshaw with bronzes by Gilbert Ledward – Guards Memorial, London
  • Alexander Calder – Cirque Calder (wire sculpture)
  • Alexander Stirling Calder – Shakespeare Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Salvador Dalí – The Basket of Bread
  • Charles T. Diamond with relief by John Paulding – Astoria Victory Monument, Astoria, Oregon
  • Edwin Dickinson – The Cello Player
  • Alberto Giacometti – Spoon Woman
  • Hannah Höch – Love
  • Frieda Kahlo – Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Brücke bei Wiesen
  • René Magritte
  • The Difficult Crossing (first version)
  • The Musings of a Solitary Walker
  • Georges Malkine – Nuit d'Amour
  • Henri Matisse – Yellow Odalisque (first version)
  • Haig Patigian – Abraham Lincoln (bronze, San Francisco)
  • Dod Procter – Morning
  • John Souter – The Breakdown
  • Births

  • 17 January – Robert Filliou, French Fluxus artist (d. 1987).
  • 18 January – Roy Kiyooka, Canadian photographer, artist and poet (d. 1994)
  • 24 January – Ruth Asawa, American sculptor (d. 2013)
  • 1 February – Vivian Maier, American street photographer (d. 2009).
  • 25 May – David Wynne, English figure sculpture (d. 2014).
  • 14 August – René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (d. 1977).
  • 10 September – Beryl Cook, English naïve painter (d. 2008).
  • 6 October – Petar Omčikus, Serbian artist.
  • 25 October – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (d. 2007).
  • 3 November – Paul Rebeyrolle, French painter (d. 2005).
  • 5 November – John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (d. 2017).
  • 9 November – Raymond Hains, French artist and photographer (d. 2005).
  • date unknown - William Foley, American illustrator.
  • Deaths

  • January 15 – Eugeniusz Żak, painter (b. 1884)
  • February 4 – Adolphe Willette, illustrator (b. 1857)
  • April 1 – Charles Angrand, neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1854)
  • June 14 – Mary Cassatt, painter (b. 1844)
  • July 17 – Maximilian Liebenwein, painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
  • July 24 – T. C. Steele, painter (b. 1847)
  • August 25 – Thomas Moran, painter of the Hudson River School (b. 1837)
  • September 28 – Helen Allingham, watercolour painter and illustrator (b. 1848)
  • December 5 – Claude Monet, painter (b. 1840)
  • References

    1926 in art Wikipedia