1923 in art

none April 2012 1923 art Events from the year 1923 in art. Events March 20 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States show, Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso. May 8 – Göteborgs Konsthall opens as the art gallery for the Gothenburg Exhibition. Publication of The Art Spirit by Robert Henri. English industrialist and collector Samuel Courtauld acquires the first painting by Paul Cézanne to be purchased for a British collection, Still life with Plaster Cupid (c.1894).The Courtauld Cézannes https://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/what-on/exhibitions-displays/archive/the-courtauld-cezannes Courtauld Institute of Art London 2008 2020-07-24 Chaïm Soutine sells sixty of his paintings from a Paris showing to the American art collector Albert C. Barnes and begins his series of paintings of beef carcasses. A joint exhibition with his mother, Suzanne Valadon, at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris brings the paintings of Maurice Utrillo to prominence.http://www.safran-arts.com/42day/art/art4dec/art1225.html 25 December – Maurice Utrillo Art "4" "2"-Day 2009-07-31 2012-04-12 East London Group forms as an amateur art club in the East End of London. Freer Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C. as the first Smithsonian museum dedicated to the fine arts.http://www.asia.si.edu/about/freer.asp The Freer Gallery of Art Freer / Sackler Smithsonian Institution 2012-04-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20140826182047/http://www.asia.si.edu/about/freer.asp 2014-08-26 dead Remington Art Memorial established in Ogdensburg, New York. Harwood Museum of Art established in Taos, New Mexico. Beaux Arts Gallery established in London by Frederick and Helen Lessore. Awards Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Portrait of a Lady Works Category:1923 sculptures Category:1923 paintings Max Beckmann – Dance in Baden-Baden George Bellows – Dempsey and Firpo Pierre Bonnard - La Cote D'azurhttps://www.artchive.com/artwork/la-cote-d%27azur-c.-1923-by-pierre-bonnard/ Overview: La Cote D’azur (c. 1923) by Pierre Bonnard artchive.com 26 August 2024 27 November 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20241127072935/https://www.artchive.com/artwork/la-cote-d%27azur-c.-1923-by-pierre-bonnard/ dead Constantin Brâncuși – Bird in Space (sculpture; first version) Felice Casorati – Meriggio (Noon) Tamara de Lempicka – Les Deux amies Robert Delaunay – Portrait of Tristan Tzara Marcel Duchamp – The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) (completed) Max Ernst – Pietà or Revolution by Night M. C. Escher – Dolphins (woodcut) George Grosz – Ecce Homo (portfolio of lithographs) Auguste Herbin – Bowls Players Marguerite Huré – Stained glass windows at Église Notre-Dame du Raincy Wassily Kandinsky – On White II Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – The Sleigh Ride Sir John Lavery – The Red Rose Sir Bertram Mackennal Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun (Australia House, London) Mother Courage (war memorial, Caledonian Club, London) Here I Am, male nude for Eton College War Memorial (now National Gallery of Victoria, Australia) Henri Matisse – Odalisque with Raised Arms Mikhail Nesterov – Girl by the Pool William Orpen – To the Unknown British Soldier in France (first finished state) Pablo Picasso The Pipes of Pan Paulo on a Donkey Man Ray – Object to Be Destroyed (first version - destroyed 1957) Gerrit Rietveld – Red and Blue Chair (colours added in De Stijl style at about this date) Stanley Royle – Sheffield from Wincobank Wood John Singer Sargent – Sir Philip Sassoonhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sargent-sir-philip-sassoon-n05052 'Sir Philip Sassoon', John Singer Sargent, 1923 Stanley Spencer – The Betrayal Lorado Taft – The Recording Angel (sculpture, Waupun, Wisconsin)Recording Angel Sculpture By Lorado Taft http://www.waupun-wisconsin.com/sculpture-recording-angel.htm Waupun, Wisconsin, City of Sculptures 2007 2012-04-21 Suzanne Valadon – Blue Room World War I Memorial (Berwick, Pennsylvania) Yokoyama Taikan – Metempsychosis (生々流転, Seisei ruten, "The Wheel of Life", Nihonga scroll painting) Births January 16 – Keith Shackleton, English painter and television host (d. 2015) February 10 – Shirley Jaffe, American-born abstract painter and sculptor (d. 2016) March 9 – André Courrèges, French fashion designer (d. 2016) April 8 – George Fisher, American political cartoonist (d. 2003) April 24 – Cordelia Oliver, Scottish journalist, painter and art critic (d. 2009)Grigor Murray Cordelia Oliver obituary https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jan/26/cordelia-oliver-obituary the Guardian 3 November 2022 en 26 January 2010 May 3 – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (d. 2004) May 15 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004) May 22 – Max Velthuijs, Dutch painter, illustrator and author (d. 2005) May 27 – Inge Morath, Austrian photographer (d. 2002) May 31 – Ellsworth Kelly, American artist (d. 2015) June 3 – June Newton, Australian-born photographer (d. 2021) June 24 – Marc Riboud, French photographer (d. 2016) June 25 – Sam Francis, American painter and printmaker (d. 1994) July 12 – Paul Jenkins, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2012) July 28 – Patrick George, English painter (d. 2016) September 13 – Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999) September 23 – Osuitok Ipeelee, Canadian Inuk sculptor (d. 2005) October 7 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2002) October 27 – Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist (d. 1997) October 28 – David Aronson, Lithuanian-American painter (d. 2015) November 15 – Miriam Schapiro, Canadian-American feminist artist (d. 2015) December 1 – Morris (born Maurice De Bevere), Belgian cartoonist (d. 2001) December 13 – Antoni Tàpies, Spanish painter (d. 2012) date unknown – François Ozenda, French painter (d. 1976) Deaths January 12 – Marc Ferrez, Brazilian photographer (b. 1843) January 31 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish modernist painter, art critic and assassin (b. 1869) March 22 – Benjamin Williams Leader, English landscape painter (b. 1831) April 15 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (b. 1843) April 17 – Jan Kotěra, Czech artist, architect and designer (b. 1871) May 29 – Adolf Oberländer, German caricaturist (b. 1845) June 15 – Joseph B. Davol, American marine painter (b. 1864) June 21 – Edward Clark Potter, American sculptor (b. 1857) July 23 – Willy Gretor, Danish-born painter and art dealer (b. 1868) August 2/3 – Jacoba van Heemskerck, Dutch painter and graphic artist (b. 1876) August 5 – Candace Wheeler, American designer (b. 1827) October 2 – John Wilson Bengough, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1851) October 19 – Eleanor Norcross, American painter (b. 1854) November 2 – Stevan Aleksić, Serbian painter (b. 1876) November 27 – Penleigh Boyd, Australian landscape painter (b. 1890) December 13 – Théophile Steinlen, Swiss/French painter (b. 1859) date unknown – Edwin Romanzo Elmer, American painter (b. 1850) See also 1923 in fine arts of the Soviet Union References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1920s in art