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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.
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 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
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. W. 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 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 (London) describing
bohemian life in 1870s
Paris among the
Impressionist painters
Exhibitions
Works
J. W. Waterhouse –
The Lady of Shalott
Sir
Lawrence Alma-Tadema –
The Roses of Heliogabalus
Reinhold Begas –
Centaur and Nymph (bronze)
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 (approximate date)
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
Births
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 ).
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
Awards
References