1888 in art
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The year 1888 in art involved some significant events.
Events
- January 26 â Paul Gauguin leaves Paris to rejoin the Pont-Aven School of artists in Brittany, where he will remain until October and meet with Ãmile Bernard
- February â 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 â Vincent van Gogh moves to Arles where he will be very productive as a painter
- March â Van Gogh begins his Langlois Bridge at Arles series
- March 22 â Fourth exhibition by the Société des Artistes Indépendants opens in Paris; it includes three paintings by van Gogh
- June â 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 â Van Gogh begins his Décoration for the Yellow House at Arles including the Arles Sunflowers series of paintings
- August 11 â 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 â Leeds City Art Gallery in England opens
- October 23 â Paul Gauguin joins van Gogh in Arles, bringing Ãmile Bernard's painting Le Pardon de Pont-Aven
- December 23 â 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
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Exhibitions
Works
- Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema â The Roses of Heliogabalus
- Reinhold Begas â Centaur and Nymph (bronze)
- Ãmile 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)
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau â The First Mourning
- Edward Burne-Jones â The Nativity
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Charles Calverley - Statue of Robert Burns (Albany, New York)
- Ãmile Friant - La Toussaint
- Philip Hermogenes Calderon â Juliet
- William Merritt Chase
- The Blue Kimono
- Modern Magdalen
- Portrait of a Lady in Pink
- Charles Conder â A holiday at Mentone
- David Edward Cronin â Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia
- Ãdouard Detaille â Le Rêve
- Alexander Doyle â William Jasper Monument
- James Ensor â The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu)
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela â Démasquée
- Andrew Carrick Gow â A Lost Cause
- Paul Gauguin
- Alfred Gilbert â Statue of Queen Victoria (Winchester)
- Antonio Gisbert Pérez - Execution of Torrijos and his Companions on the Beach at Málaga
- Peder Severin Krøyer â Hip, Hip, Hurrah!
- Frederic Leighton â Captive Andromache (approximate date)
- William Logsdail â St Martin-in-the-Fields
- Cesare Maccari â Cicero Denounces Catiline (fresco in Palazzo Madama, Rome)
- John Everett Millais â Portrait of Arthur Sullivan
- Albert Joseph Moore â A River Side
- Philip Richard Morris â Audrey
- Giovanni Muzzioli â The Funeral of Britannicus
- Ilya Repin
- Paul Sérusier â Le Talisman
- Georges Seurat â completion of Models (Les Poseuses) (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia)
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec â At the Circus Fernando, Equestrienne
- Henry Scott Tuke â The Bathers
- Giovanni Turini â Statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi (bronze, Washington Square Park, New York City)
- John Henry Twachtman â Landscape, Branchville
- J. W. Waterhouse â The Lady of Shalott
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- Vincent van Gogh
- Boats on the Beach of Saintes-Mariesâ (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 12)
- Vincent's Chair and Gauguin's Armchair (November)
- Les Arènes (November or December)
Births
- January 1 â Augustus Dunbier, American painter (died 1977).
- January 17 â Mohamed Nagy, Egyptian painter (died 1956).
- February 22 â Horace Pippin, self-taught African-American painter (died 1946).
- March 12 - Eric Kennington, English sculptor and painter (died 1960).
- March 14 â Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Canadian painter (died 1970).
- March 19 â Josef Albers, German artist, mathematician and educator (died 1976).
- April 6 â Hans Richter, German painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer (died 1976).
- June â David Dougal Williams, English painter (died 1944).
- June 12 â Tom Purvis, English poster artist (died 1959).
- July 10 â Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter (died 1978).
- August 13 â Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (died 1975).
- August 14 â Sydney Carline, English painter, war artist (died 1929).
- August 30 â Siri Derkert, Swedish artist, sculptor and political campaigner (died 1973).
- September 4 â Oskar Schlemmer, German sculptor, painter, designer and choreographer (died 1943).
- November 1 â George Kenner, German artist (died 1971)
- November 7 â Mariano Andreu, Spanish painter, enamelling master, sculptor and stage designer (died 1976).
- November 11 â Johannes Itten, Swiss colour theorist, painter and designer (died 1967).
- Stanley Royle, English post-impressionist landscape painter (died 1961).
Deaths
- January 13 â John William Inchbold, pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1830)
- January 29 â Edward Lear, painter, illustrator and humorous writer (born 1812)
- February 5 â Anton Mauve, painter (born 1838)
- March 15 â Léonard Morel-Ladeuil, goldsmith and sculptor (born 1820)
- May 30 â Louis Buvelot, Swiss-Australian painter (born 1814)
- June 18 â Luigi Mussini, painter (born 1813)
- July 31 â Frank Holl, painter (born 1845)
- August 23 â Philip Henry Gosse, naturalist and illustrator (born 1810)
- August 30 â George O'Brien, engineer and painter (born 1821)
- September 28 â Thomas Gambier Parry, artist and art collector (born 1816)
- October â Frank O'Meara, Irish painter (born 1853)
- November 20 â 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)