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1929 art
Events from the year 1929 in art.
Events
January 6 – On the death of New York collector Louisine Havemeyer, her collection of paintings, rich in works of Impressionism, is bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
January 10 – First appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero Tintin as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets), begins serialization in children's newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième.
January 17 – First appearance of E. C. Segar's American sailor comic book hero Popeye in Thimble Theatre.Don Markstein's Toonopedia Popeye the Sailor http://www.toonopedia.com/popeye.htm 2011-09-22
April 30 – English painters Stephen Bone and Mary Adshead marry.
May 6 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1929 opens at Burlington House in Londonhttps://chronicle250.com/1929#catalogue
June 6 – Première of the Surrealist film Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, in Paris.
July 5 – In London, Scotland Yard seizes 13 paintings of male and female nudes by D. H. Lawrence from a Mayfair gallery on grounds of indecency under the Vagrancy Act 1838.Andrew Graham-Dixon Rude awakening https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3605916/Rude-awakening.html 11 May 2003 The Daily Telegraph London 2012-07-06
August 21 – Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo marry for the first time, in a civil ceremony in the town hall at Coyoacán.http://www.fridakahlofans.com/biocomplete.html Frida Kahlo Fans Complete Biography 2008 2012-04-13 2018-02-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20180216151139/http://www.fridakahlofans.com/biocomplete.html dead
October
La galerie Goemans opens in Paris with a Surrealist exhibition featuring Jean Arp, Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy and René Magritte.Biographie De 1928 à 1943 http://corporate.skynet.be/molos/magritte/FR/bio2.html Magritte Foundation 2011-06-17
American artist Lynd Ward publishes his first wordless "novel in woodcuts", Gods' Man, in New York City.
October 12 – Joan Miró marries Pilar Juncosa in Palma, Mallorca.
October 27 – Socialite Bryan Guinness and his new wife Diana present an exhibition at their London home of paintings by supposed German-born artist Bruno Hat. They are in fact by Brian Howard and Hat is portrayed by Tom Mitford.Bruno Hat https://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/bruno_hat Museum of Hoaxes 2024-02-15
November – The East London Group (for the first time under this name) exhibit with Walter Sickert at the Lefevre Gallery in the West End of London.
November 7 – The Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City. An exhibit, "Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat and van Gogh", at the new museum attracts 47,000 visitors.Johnson Ken https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/arts/design/09cezanne.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print A Post-Impressionist and His American Imitators The New York Times 2009-10-09 2009-12-17
December 1 – Underground Electric Railways Company of London officially opens its new headquarters building at 55 Broadway designed by Charles Holden, incorporating sculptures by Jacob Epstein, Eric Gill and Henry Moore.David Lawrence Underground Architecture Harrow Capital Transport 1994 1-85414-160-0 68–71
Aeropittura ("aeropainting") is launched in a manifesto, Perspectives of Flight, signed by Benedetta Cappa, Fortunato Depero, Gerardo Dottori, Fillìa, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Enrico Prampolini, Mino Somenzi and Guglielmo Sansoni (Tato) in Italy.Crispolti E. Aeropainting Hulten, P. Futurism and Futurisms Thames and Hudson London 1986 413
Cercle et Carré group of abstract artists founded in Paris by Joaquín Torres García and Michel Seuphor.http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=65 Tate Glossary Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square) 2012-03-19 12 March 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120312155613/http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=65
The Barcelona chair is designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Henri Matisse makes more than 300 (chine-collé) etchings and lithographs, chiefly of Lisette Löwengard.
Musashino Art University originates as the Teikoku Bijutsu Gakkō ("Imperial Art School") in Tokyo.
Curtis Moffat opens a gallery at 4 Fitzroy Square in London.
Karl Blossfeldt publishes a collection of close-up photographs of plants and living things as Urformen der Kunst: Photographische Pflanzenbilder in Berlin.
Awards
Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – W A Holman, KC
Laura Knight made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Works
Category:1929 sculptures Category:1929 paintings
David Bomberg – Toledo from the Alcazar
Emily Carr – The Indian Church
Salvador Dalí
The Accommodations of Desire
The First Days of Spring
The Great Masturbator
The Lugubrious Game
Guan Zilan – Portrait of Miss L
Edward Hopper – Chop Suey
Frieda Kahlo – The Bus
Wassily Kandinsky – Upward
Kawamura Kiyoo – Founding of the Nation (建国, Kenkoku, Le coq blanc)
Paul Klee – Highway and Byways
Harue Koga - The Sea
John Lavery – The Opening of the Modern Foreign and Sargent Galleries at the Tate Gallery
Tamara de Lempicka
Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti)
The Musician
René Magritte
The False Mirror
On the Threshold of Liberty (first version)
The Treachery of Images
Jeanne Mammen – Boring Dolls (watercolor)
Carl Milles – The Sun Singer (bronze)
Henry Moore – Reclining Figure (sculpture, Leeds Art Gallery)http://www.henry-moore.org/works-in-public/world/uk/leeds/leeds-art-gallery/reclining-figure-1929-lh-59 Reclining Figure 1929 (LH 59) Henry Moore Works in Public The Henry Moore Foundation 2012-05-29 2012-06-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20120630065516/http://www.henry-moore.org/works-in-public/world/uk/leeds/leeds-art-gallery/reclining-figure-1929-lh-59 deadhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/MxQAXN1MQsiSxzDPBNv1Qw Reclining figure by Henry Moore A History of the World BBC 2012-05-29
George Pitt Morison – The Foundation of Perth 1829
Georgia O'Keeffe – The Lawrence Tree
Francis Picabia – Hera
Pablo Picasso
Nude in an Armchair (Musée Picasso, Paris)
Woman in a Red Armchair
Louis Frederick Roslyn – Bronze reliefs on Rawtenstall Cenotaph (England)
Stanley Spencer – The Resurrection of the Soldiers (Sandham Memorial Chapel)
Helen Torr – Houses on a Barge
Julio Romero de Torres – La Fuensanta
Grant Wood – Woman with Plants
Doris Zinkeisen – Mrs Grahame Johnstone (self-portrait)
Births
January to June
2 January – Anton Lehmden, Slovakian-born Austrian painter, co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism (d. 2018)
8 January – Poul Kjærholm, Danish designer (d. 1980)
13 January – Roy Oxlade, English painter and critic (d. 2014)
26 January – Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist
28 January – Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born American sculptor (d. 2022)
9 February – Clement Meadmore, Australian-born American sculptor (d. 2005)
24 February – Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer and fantasy artist (k. 2005)
4 March – Wolfgang Hollegha, Austrian painter
22 March – Yayoi Kusama, Japanese visual artist (d. 2026)
31 March
Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur (d. 2007)
Jay DeFeo, American visual artist (d. 1989)
5 April – Hugo Claus, Belgian novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director (d. 2008)
7 April – Gabriel Caruana, Maltese artist (d. 2018)
23 May – Vladimír Preclík, Czech writer and sculptor (d. 2008)
31 May – Nicholas Krushenick, American pop art painter (d. 1999)
4 June – Davidee Itulu, Inuk artist (d. 2006)
26 June – Milton Glaser, American graphic designer and illustrator (d. 2020)
July to December
13 July – René Laloux, French animator and film director (d. 2004)
25 July – Bryan Pearce, English naïve painter (d. 2007)
29 July – Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator and photographer (d. 2007)
8 August – Josef Mikl, Austrian abstract painter (d. 2008)
4 September – Anne Dunn, English painter
21 September – Edgar Valter, Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books (d. 2006)
4 November — Jane Davis Doggett, American graphic artist (d. 2023)
Undated
Barrie Cook, English abstract painter (d. 2020)
Li Yuan-chia, Chinese-born artist, poet and curator (d. 1994)
Deaths
January 6 - Louisine Havemeyer, American art collector and philanthropist (b 1855)
January 12 – Arthur Diehl, English landscape painter (b. 1870)
January 13 – Emil Fuchs, Austrian American sculptor and painter (b. 1866)
January 18 – Maurice Bouchor, French poet and sculptor (b. 1855)
February 14 – Sydney Carline, English painter, war artist (b. 1888)
February 22 – Louise Upton Brumback, American landscape painter (b. 1867)
March 1
Vincenzo Gemito, Italian sculptor (b. 1852)
Ernst Oppler, German painter (b. 1867)
March 5 – Francesco Paolo Michetti, Italian painter (b. 1851)
April 22 – Henry Lerolle, painter and arts patron (b. 1848)
May 5 – Charles Grafly, sculptor (b. 1862)
May 9 – Kate Dickens Perugini, English painter (b. 1839)
June 13 – Margaret Forrest, art collector (b. 1844)
July 3 – Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, painter (b. 1852)
July 12 – Robert Henri, painter, leader of the Ash Can School (b. 1865)
July 28 – Allen Hutchinson, sculptor (b. 1855)
August 9 – Heinrich Zille, photographer and illustrator (b. 1858)
October 1 – Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (b. 1861)
October 26 – Aby Warburg, German art historian (b. 1866)
date unknown - Adelaïde Alsop Robineau, American painter and potter (b. 1865)
See also
1929 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
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