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Overview of the events of 1888 in art
Overview of the events of 1888 in art
The year 1888 in art involved some significant 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 ,[1] Odilon Redon ,[2] Paul Signac , Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and James McNeill Whistler [3]
February 21 – Vincent van Gogh moves to Arles where he will be very productive as a painterMarch – 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 GoghJune – Van Gogh visits Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
July 14
August – Van Gogh begins his Décoration for the Yellow Housethe Arles Sunflowers series of paintings
August 11 – James McNeill Whistler marries fellow-artist Beatrice ("Trixie") Godwin (née Beatrix Birnie Philip), widow of architect E. W. Godwin , and they spend a working honeymoon in FranceOctober 3 – Leeds City Art Gallery in England opensOctober 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 Shakespeare 's heroines[4]
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 bohemian life in 1870s Paris among the Impressionist painters Exhibitions [ edit ] J. W. Waterhouse – The Lady of Shalott Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Roses of Heliogabalus
Reinhold Begas – Centaur and Nymph Émile Bernard
Joseph Boehm
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – The First Mourning Edward Burne-Jones – The Nativity Gustave Caillebotte
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 Paul Gauguin
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 William Logsdail – St Martin-in-the-Fields Cesare Maccari – Cicero Denounces Catiline fresco in Palazzo Madama , Rome )Albert Joseph Moore – A River Side Philip Richard Morris – Audrey Giovanni Muzzioli – The Funeral of Britannicus Ilya Repin
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 van Gogh – The Yellow House January 1 – Augustus Dunbier , American painter (died 1977 ).January 17 – Mohamed Nagy , Egyptian painter (died 1956 ).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 ).Stanley Royle , English post-impressionist landscape painter (died 1961 ).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
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