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Events from the year 1944 in art.
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Events
June 6 – Normandy landings: Robert Capa takes "The Magnificent Eleven" photographs.
July – Dulwich Picture Gallery in London is substantially damaged by a V-1 flying bomb; half a dozen paintings are destroyed, but most have been evacuated to Aberystwyth.
Autumn – Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan releases a 78 rpm 3-record album containing Paul Bowles' Sonata for Flute and Piano and Two Mexican Dances with a cover by Max Ernst.
Clandestine publication of Vaincre, an album of 12 colour lithographs by 8 artists in support of the French Resistance.
Awards
Archibald Prize: Joshua Smith – Hon Sol Rosevear, MHR, Speaker of the House of Representatives
Exhibitions
Jean Dubuffet's first solo exhibition.
Works
Epstein – Lucifer
David Aronson – The Last Supper
Duffy Ayers – Portrait of Tirzah Garwood
Francis Bacon – Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
David Bomberg – Evening in the City of London
Stella Bowen – Bomber Crew
Robert Capa – "The Magnificent Eleven" (photographs)
William Coldstream – Casualty Reception Station, Capua
Salvador Dalí –
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
Tristan and Isolde created for the ballet Mad Tristan by Leonide Massine and Dali which in turn was inspired by the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner[2][3]
Paul Delvaux – Sleeping Venus
Jacob Epstein – sculptures
First Portrait of Esther (with long hair)
Lucifer
George Grosz – Cain, or Hitler in Hell
Jean Hélion – The Stairway
Bror Hjorth – Gås-Anders (sculpture)
Frida Kahlo
The Broken Column
Diego and Frida 1929-1944
Dame Laura Knight – Take Off
Fernand Léger – Three Musicians (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Henri Matisse – Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones
Joan Miró – Barcelona Series (lithographs)
Piet Mondrian (died February 1) – Victory Boogie-Woogie (unfinished)
Walter Thomas Monnington
Southern England: Spitfires Attacking Flying-bombs
Tempests Attacking Flying-bombs
Felix Nussbaum – Triumph of Death
Pablo Picasso – Man with Sheep (sculpture)
William Roberts
The Ballet
The Ferry (at Marston near Oxford)
Parson's Pleasure (On the Lawn)
Robert F. Sargent – Into the Jaws of Death (photograph)
Ben Shahn – The Red Stairway
Births
9 January – Ian Hornak, American painter and draughtsman (d. 2002).
10 January – Jeff Jones, American illustrator.
12 February - Jane Livingston, American curator.
4 March – Glen Baxter, English cartoonist.
29 March – Abbas, Iranian-born documentary photographer (d. 2018).
4 April – Phyllida Barlow, English sculptor (d. 2023).
8 May – David Vaughan, English psychedelic artist and muralist (d. 2003).
24 July – Maya Wildevuur, Dutch painter (d. 2023).
4 August – Allan McCollum, American conceptual artist, all media.
15 August – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (d. 2007).
20 August – Brian Barnes, English mural artist.
27 August – Catherine Leroy, French-born photographer (d. 2006).
1 September – Louis Delsarte, American painter (d. 2020).
4 November
Don Eddy, American painter.
Michael Heizer, American sculptor, earth artist.
23 November – Peter Lindbergh, born Peter Brodbeck, Polish-born fashion photographer (d. 2019).