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1887 art
The year 1887 in art involved some significant events.
Events
February (approx.) – Fourth 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 Walter Sickert,Baron Wendy Sickert: paintings and drawings Yale University Press New Haven 2006 586 978-0-300-11129-3 https://books.google.com/books?id=4S5K_DSH4hgC&dq=%22les+xx%22&pg=PA11 2009-12-22 Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot and Georges-Pierre Seurat.Walther Ingo F. Suckle, Robert Wundram, Manfred Masterpieces of Western Art Taschen Cologne 2002 1 760 978-3-8228-1825-1 https://books.google.com/books?id=O7YSKD3scdcC&dq=%22les+xx%22&pg=PA746 2009-12-22 The major work shown is Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.Clement Russell T. Houzé, Annick Neo-impressionist painters Greenwood Publishing Group 1999 396 978-0-313-30382-1 https://books.google.com/books?id=VlEbAeM1wasC&dq=%22les+xx%22&pg=PA3 2009-12-22
March 26 – June 8 – Third exhibition by the Société des Artistes Indépendants in Paris.
November 14 – Paul Gauguin and Charles Laval return to Paris from Martinique where they have been living since leaving Panama in June.
December (approx.) – Vincent van Gogh arranges an exhibition of paintings by himself, Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, and (probably) Toulouse-Lautrec in the Restaurant du Chalet, 43 Avenue de Clichy, Montmartre, Paris. Bernard and Anquetin sell their first paintings; van Gogh exchanges work with Gauguin.Letter 510, 15 July 1888. There are two short accounts of this exhibition, one based on information supplied by Seurat and the other written by Bernard. For the paintings exchanged, see Annet Tellegen, "Vincent en Gauguin. Schilderijenruil in Parijs", Museumjournaal 1966, pp. 42–44.
Vincent van Gogh begins his first Sunflowers series of paintings in Paris.
Walter Crane illustrates "The Architecture of Art" (included in his Claims of Decorative Art, printed later).
Charles Lang Freer's first Asian art purchase is a painted Japanese fan.
Sir John Everett Millais' painting Bubbles is acquired for advertising purposes by Pears soap.The Athenaeum https://books.google.com/books?id=_9pBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA802 1887 J. Lection 802
Awards
Works
thumb|The Black Spot by Albert Bettannier
thumb|V. A. Serov – Girl with Peaches, inaugurating Russian Impressionism
Category:1887 paintings Category:1887 sculptures
Atlanta Cyclorama (approximate completion date)Rothstein Edward 'Cyclorama: The Big Picture' Review: Standing at the Center of History https://www.wsj.com/articles/cyclorama-the-big-picture-review-standing-at-the-center-of-history-11555528782 17 April 2019 Wall Street Journal 17 April 2019
Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Women of Amphissa
Otto Bache – Christian IV's Coronation, 1596
William Gerard Barry – Time Flies
Albert Bettannier – The Black Spot (La tache noire) (or The Geography Lesson)
Anna Bilińska – Self-Portrait with Apron and Brushes
Joseph Boehm – Jubilee Head of Queen Victoria on British coinage
Alexander Milne Calder – Major General George Gordon Meade
Thomas Shields Clarke – A Fool's Fool
Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret – Breton Women at a Pardon
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes – Young Girls at the Seaside
Frank Duveneck – Elizabeth Boott Duveneck
Jean-Léon Gérôme – Omphale (sculpture)
Edward John Gregory – Marooned and Marooning
Atkinson Grimshaw
Canny Glasgow
Liverpool Quay by Moonlight
Prince's Dock, Hull (later version, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull)
Max Klinger – The Judgement of Paris (c. 1886–87)
Léon Augustin Lhermitte – The Gleaners
John Longstaff – Breaking the News
Matthijs Maris – The Dreamer
Albert Joseph Moore – Midsummer
Walter Osborne – On Suffolk Sands
Hanna Hirsch-Pauli – Breakfast Time (Frukostdags)
Eilif Peterssen – Summer Evening and Nocturne
Camille Pissarro – Late Afternoon in Our Meadow
Edward Poynter – Corner of the Marketplace
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Les Grandes Baigneuses
Ilya Repin – Portrait of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Theodore Roussel – The Reading Girl
Valentin Serov
Girl with Peaches («Девочка с персиками», Devochka s Persikami)
Self-portrait
Paul Signac – The Town Beach, Collioure
Solomon Joseph Solomon – Samson and Delilah
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – A Montrouge–Rosa La Rougehttps://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/6865/A-MontrougeRosa-La-Rouge/ Barnes Collection Online — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: "A Montrouge"–Rosa la Rouge
Vincent van Gogh
Coin de Jardin avec Papillonshttps://www.christies.com/en/stories/van-gogh-coin-de-jardin-avec-papillons-05f0092d24574e769d366970f49c7b5d 'Something very much alive' — Coin de jardin avec papillons by van Gogh | Christie's
Crab on its Back
Portrait of Alexander Reid
John William Waterhouse – Mariamne Leaving the Judgement Seat of Herodhttps://www.christies.com/lot/lot-4051715/?intObjectID=4051715
George Frederic Watts
Mrs. G. F. Watts
A Sea Ghosthttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/a-sea-ghost-13346
Henry Tanworth Wells – Victoria Regina (second version)
Rome Confederate Monument
Births
January to June
January 3 – August Macke, German Expressionist painter (died on active service 1914).Anna Meseure August Macke August Macke, 1887–1914 https://books.google.com/books?id=44ErAQAAMAAJ 1993 Benedikt Taschen 978-3-8228-0551-0 7
February 5 – Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (died 1973).
March 23 – Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1927).Marcel Brion Modern Painting; from Impressionism to Abstract Art https://books.google.com/books?id=u74YAAAAYAAJ 1958 Thames and Hudson 95
March 25 – Josef Čapek, Czech painter (died 1945).
April 29 – Stanley Cursiter, Scottish painter and curator (died 1976).
May – Jacob Steinhardt, German-born Israeli painter and woodcut artist (died 1968).
May 12 – Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter and sculptor (died 1978).
May 16 – Laura Wheeler Waring, African-America painter (died 1948)Henry Louis Gates Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham The African American National Biography: Uggams-Zuber https://books.google.com/books?id=oisOAQAAMAAJ 2008 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-516019-2 115
May 21
Barker Fairley, English-born Canadian painter, writer, and educator (died 1986).
Paul Maze, French-born Post-Impressionist painter (died 1979).
May 22 – Arthur Cravan, born Fabian Avenarius Lloyd, Swiss-born Dadaist writer, poet, artist and boxer (disappeared 1918)David Chandler Boxer: An Anthology of Writings on Boxing and Visual Culture https://books.google.com/books?id=CVhLAQAAIAAJ 1996 Institute of International Visual Arts 978-1-899846-04-7 99
May 30 – Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian sculptor (died 1964).
June 20 – Kurt Schwitters, German Dadaist painter and writer (died 1948).
July to December
July 7 – Marc Chagall, Russian-Belarusian-French painter (died 1985).
July 28 – Marcel Duchamp, French-American artist and inventor (died 1968).Marcel Brion Modern Painting; from Impressionism to Abstract Art https://books.google.com/books?id=u74YAAAAYAAJ 1958 Thames and Hudson 94
August 31 – William McMillan, Scottish sculptor (died 1977).
September 24 – Frank Newbould, English poster artist (died 1951).
October 6 – Le Corbusier, French architect and painter (died 1965).Juan Antonio Ramírez The Beehive Metaphor: From Gaudí to Le Corbusier https://books.google.com/books?id=es5Nb92a5t4C&pg=PA116 2000 Reaktion Books 978-1-86189-056-6 116
October 9 – Manuel Ortíz de Zárate, Chilean painter (died 1946).
October 13 – Kate Lechmere, English painter associated with the Vorticists and milliner (died 1976).
November 1 – L. S. Lowry, English painter (died 1976).Allen Andrews The Life of L. S. Lowry, 1887–1976 https://books.google.com/books?id=QRs3AQAAIAAJ 1977 Jupiter Books 978-0-904041-60-6 30
November 14 – Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Portuguese painter (died 1918).
November 15 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (died 1986).Britta Benke Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887–1986: Flowers in the Desert https://books.google.com/books?id=qggwE6o5ykAC&pg=PA5 2000 Taschen 978-3-8228-5861-5 5
December 14 – Xul Solar, Argentine painter, sculptor and writer (died 1963).
December 29 – Nell Walden, Swedish-born abstract artist and collector (died 1975)
Deaths
March 24 – Ivan Kramskoi, painter and art critic (born 1837)
May 20 – Paul Emile Chappuis, photographer (born 1816)
June 4 – Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, French sculptor and painter (born 1824)
June 5 – Hans von Marées, painter (born 1837)
July 8 – John Wright Oakes, landscape painter (born 1820)
July 17 – Nicaise de Keyser, painter (born 1813)
August 19 – Alvan Clark, American astronomer, telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (born 1804)
December 19
August Becker, painter (born 1821)
François Bonvin, realist painter (born 1817)
date unknown – Giovanni Battista Amendola, sculptor (born 1848)
References
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