1888 in art

none 1888 art The year 1888 in art involved some significant events. Events January 26 – Paul Gauguin leaves Paris to rejoin the Pont-Aven School of artists in Brittany, where he will remain until October and meet with Émile Bernard February – Fifth 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 Henri-Edmond Cross, Albert Dubois-Pillet,Turner Jane The Grove Dictionary of Art Oxford University Press 2000 434 978-0-312-22971-9 https://books.google.com/books?id=ExiJFPrNrKkC&dq=%22salon+des+xx%22&pg=PA198 2009-12-22 Odilon Redon,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 2009-12-23 Paul Signac, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and James McNeill WhistlerSchwartz Manuela Vincent d'Indy et son temps Mardaga 2006 391 978-2-87009-888-2 https://books.google.com/books?id=BwNn8rHcqIQC&dq=maus+xx&pg=PA335 2009-12-23 February 21 – Vincent van Gogh moves to Arles where he will be very productive as a painter March – Van Gogh begins his Langlois Bridge at Arles series March 22 – Fourth exhibition by the Société des Artistes Indépendants opens in Paris; it includes three paintings by van Gogh June – Van Gogh visits Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer July 14 The Monument à Léon Gambetta, by Jean-Paul Aubé, is inaugurated at the Louvre Critic Emile Hennequin drowns at Samois-sur-Seine before his protégé Odilon Redon August – Van Gogh begins his Décoration for the Yellow House at Arles including the Arles Sunflowers series of paintings August 11 – James McNeill Whistler marries fellow-artist Beatrice ("Trixie") Godwin (née Beatrix Birnie Philip), widow of architect E. 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Godwin, and they spend a working honeymoon in France October 3 – Leeds City Art Gallery in England opens October 23 – Paul Gauguin joins van Gogh in Arles, bringing Émile Bernard's painting Le Pardon de Pont-Aven December 23 – Having quarrelled with Gauguin, van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his own left ear, taking it to a brothel, and is removed to the local hospital Paul Ranson, Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis become fellow students at the Académie Julian and form Les Nabis The weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic commissions and exhibits in London 21 paintings of Shakespeare's heroinesThe Graphic and Shakespeare's Heroines http://shakespeare.emory.edu/illustrations/graphic3.html Emory University 2013-11-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20121109162212/http://shakespeare.emory.edu/illustrations/graphic3.html 2012-11-09 dead William De Morgan moves his London art pottery from Merton Abbey to Fulham Publication in English of Irish-born writer George Moore's autobiographical novel Confessions of a Young Man (London) describing bohemian life in 1870s Paris among the Impressionist painters Exhibitions International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry, in Glasgow, Scotland Works thumb|J. 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Waterhouse – The Lady of Shalott Category:1888 sculptures Category:1888 paintings Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Roses of Heliogabalus Reinhold Begas – Centaur and Nymph (bronze) Émile Bernard Le Pardon de Pont-Aven ("Breton Women in the Meadow") Brothel Scene, for Vincent (watercolor) Self-portrait with portrait of Paul Gauguin The Yellow Tree Joseph Boehm Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington (Hyde Park Corner, London) Queen Victoria Statue (College Green, Bristol) Eugène Boudin – The Entrance to Trouville Harbourhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-entrance-to-trouville-harbour-115577 William-Adolphe Bouguereau – The First Mourning Edward Burne-Jones – The Nativity Gustave Caillebotte The Plain of Gennevilliers Sailing boats at Argenteuil Charles Calverley - Statue of Robert Burns (Albany, New York) Émile Friant - La Toussaint Philip Hermogenes Calderon – Juliet William Merritt Chase The Blue Kimono Modern Magdalen Portrait of a Lady in Pink Charles Conder – A holiday at Mentone David Edward Cronin – Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia Édouard Detaille – Le Rêve Alexander Doyle – William Jasper Monument James Ensor – The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu) Akseli Gallen-Kallela – Démasquée Andrew Carrick Gow – A Lost Cause Paul Gauguin Madame Ginoux (drawing) The Painter of Sunflowers (December) Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les misérables) Vision After the Sermon Alfred Gilbert – Statue of Queen Victoria (Winchester) Antonio Gisbert Pérez - Execution of Torrijos and his Companions on the Beach at Málaga Peder Severin Krøyer – Hip, Hip, Hurrah! Frederic Leighton – Captive Andromache (approximate date) William Logsdail – St Martin-in-the-Fields Cesare Maccari – Cicero Denounces Catiline (fresco in Palazzo Madama, Rome) John Everett Millais – Portrait of Arthur Sullivan Albert Joseph Moore – A River Side Philip Richard Morris – Audrey Giovanni Muzzioli – The Funeral of Britannicus Ilya Repin Saint Nicholas of Myra saves three innocents from death They Did Not Expect Him Herbert Gustave Schmalz – Zenobia's Last Look on Palmyrahttps://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/works/_/25205/ Paul Sérusier – Le Talisman Georges Seurat – completion of Models (Les Poseuses) (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – At the Circus Fernando, Equestrienne Henry Scott Tuke – The Bathers Giovanni Turini – Statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi (bronze, Washington Square Park, New York City) John Henry Twachtman – Landscape, Branchville J. W. Waterhouse – The Lady of Shalott thumb|van Gogh – The Yellow House Vincent van Gogh Saintes-Maries series Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (June) The Sea at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (June) Harvest (at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background) (June) Corn Harvest in Provence Farmhouse in Provence La Mousmé Sunset at Montmajour (August) Cafe Terrace at Night (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo) (September) The Night Café (September) The Yellow House (September) Bedroom in Arles (first version; October) The Red Vineyard (November) The Sower (Sower with the Setting Sun) (June) Tarascon Diligence (October) Vincent's Chair and Gauguin's Armchair (November) Les Arènes (November or December) Births January 1 Chesley Bonestell, American space art painter and designer (died 1986). Augustus Dunbier, American painter (died 1977). January 17 – Mohamed Nagy, Egyptian painter (died 1956). January 19 – Hans Siebert von Heister, German painter (died 1967). February 22 – Horace Pippin, self-taught African-American painter (died 1946). March 12 - Eric Kennington, English sculptor and painter (died 1960). March 14 – Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Canadian painter (died 1970). March 19 – Josef Albers, German artist, mathematician and educator (died 1976). April 6 – Hans Richter, German painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer (died 1976). June – David Dougal Williams, English painter (died 1944). June 12 – Tom Purvis, English poster artist (died 1959). July 10 – Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter (died 1978). August 13 – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (died 1975). August 14 – Sydney Carline, English painter, war artist (died 1929). August 30 – Siri Derkert, Swedish artist, sculptor and political campaigner (died 1973). September 4 – Oskar Schlemmer, German sculptor, painter, designer and choreographer (died 1943). November 1 – George Kenner, German artist (died 1971) November 7 – Mariano Andreu, Spanish painter, enamelling master, sculptor and stage designer (died 1976). November 11 – Johannes Itten, Swiss colour theorist, painter and designer (died 1967). date unknown Stanley Royle, English post-impressionist landscape painter (died 1961). Deaths January 13 – John William Inchbold, pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1830) January 29 – Edward Lear, painter, illustrator and humorous writer (born 1812) February 5 – Anton Mauve, painter (born 1838) March 15 – Léonard Morel-Ladeuil, goldsmith and sculptor (born 1820) May 30 – Louis Buvelot, Swiss-Australian painter (born 1814) June 18 – Luigi Mussini, painter (born 1813) July 31 – Frank Holl, painter (born 1845) August 23 – Philip Henry Gosse, naturalist and illustrator (born 1810) August 30 – George O'Brien, engineer and painter (born 1821) September 28 – Thomas Gambier Parry, artist and art collector (born 1816) October – Frank O'Meara, Irish painter (born 1853) November 20 – Nathaniel Currier, illustrator (born 1813) date unknown Alexander Joseph Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (born 1818) Nam Gye-u, Korean painter and government official (born 1811) Awards References Category:Years of the 19th century in art Category:1880s in art