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1921 in art
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Events from the year 1921 in art.
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Events
- March â Puhl & Wagner are contracted to decorate the interior of the Golden Hall (Stockholm City Hall) with neo-Byzantine mosaics designed by Einar Forseth.
- SeptemberâOctober â 5x5=25 abstract art exhibition held in Moscow.
- unknown dates
- The first of the Western Front demarcation stones, designed by Paul Moreau-Vauthier, are erected in France and Belgium.[1]
- The experimental short documentary film Manhatta is shot by painter Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand in New York City.
- Thomas Gainsborough's c. 1770 portrait The Blue Boy from the collection of the Duke of Westminster is sold by dealer Joseph Duveen to California magnate Henry E. Huntington for $728,800 (£182,200; equivalent to $13 million in 2025), according to Duveen's bill, a record price for any painting at this time.[2]
- André Delatte opens his glasswares studio in Nancy.
- Simon Rodia begins construction of the Watts Towers in Los Angeles.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: W B McInnes â Desbrowe Annear
Works
- Carlo Carrà â The Engineer's Lover
- Dora Carrington â Farm at Watendlath
- Arthur Stockdale Cope â Naval Officers of World War I
- Charles Demuth â Incense of a New Church
- Guy Pène du Bois â An American Oriental
- Marcel Duchamp â Why Not Sneeze, Rose Sélavy? (assisted readymade)
- Max Ernst â The Elephant Celebes
- Jean-Léon Gérôme - Matoax
- Lady Feodora Gleichen â 37th (British) Division memorial (Monchy-le-Preux, France)
- Daniel Chester French â Statue of the Marquis de Lafayette
- J. W. Godward â Megilla
- Duncan Grant â Bathers by the Pond
- Auguste Herbin â Le Cateau-Cambrésis
- Edward Hopper â Girl at Sewing Machine
- Wassily Kandinsky - Weisses Oval (White Oval)[3]
- Seán Keating â Men of the South
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Boris Kustodiev â Portrait of Chaliapin
- Fernand Léger
- Wyndham Lewis â Mr Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro
- Sir Bertram Mackennal â Bronze equestrian statue of King Edward VII (Waterloo Place, London)
- Piet Mondrian
- Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue
- Tableau I
- Edvard Munch â Model by the Wicker Chair[4]
- Alfred Munnings â The Red Prince Mare
- Francis Picabia
- The Cacodylic Eye
- Cannibale
- Pablo Picasso
- Reading the Letter
- Three Musicians (two versions)
- Three Women at the Spring
- Man Ray (with Erik Satie) â The Gift (readymade sculpture)
- Stanley Spencer
- Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
- Crucifixion
- Félix Vallotton â Femme nue dormant au bord de l'eau[5]
- Han van Meegeren â Hertje ("The fawn")
- Owe Zerge - Victoria Mortis[6]
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Publications
- Paul Sérusier â ABC de la peinture[7]
Births
January to June
- January 1 â César Baldaccini, French sculptor (d. 1998)
- January 3 â Bill Gold, American graphic designer (d. 2018)[8]
- January 14 â Norris Embry, American neo-expressionist painter (d. 1981)
- January 24 â Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer (d. 1998)[9]
- January 27 â Georges Mathieu, French abstract painter (d. 2012)
- February 2 â Pietro Cascella, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 2008)
- February 5 â Ken Adam, German-born British film set designer (d. 2016)
- February 13 â Louis Féraud, French fashion designer and artist (d. 1999)
- February 20 â Michael Ayrton, English sculptor, graphic artist and writer (d. 1975)
- February 22 â Cecil King, Irish abstract-minimalist painter (d. 1986)
- February 23 â John Latham, Zambian conceptual artist (d. 2006)
- March 2 â Ernst Haas, Austrian photographer (d. 1986)
- March 13 â Al Jaffee, American cartoonist (d. 2023)
- March 28 â Norman Bluhm, American painter (d. 1999)
- April 21 â Dimitrije BaÅ¡iÄeviÄ, Serbian painter and sculptor (d. 1987)
- April 23 â William Brice, American painter and teacher (d. 2008)
- April 25 â Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor and poet (d. 2006)
- May 18 â Joan Eardley, British painter (d. 1963)
- May 29 â Enzo Plazzotta, Italian-born British sculptor (d. 1981)
- June 20 â Fiore de Henriquez, Italian-born British sculptor (d. 2004)
July to December
- July 16
- Ernst Beyeler, Swiss art dealer and collector (d. 2010)
- Guy Laroche, French fashion designer (d. 1989)
- July 16 â Boscoe Holder, Trinidadian painter (d. 2007)
- July 17 â Richard Jeranian, Armenian painter, draftsman and lithographer (d. 2019)
- August 4 â Jean Pierre Capron, French painter (d. 1997)
- August 18 â ZdzisÅaw Å»ygulski, Jr., Polish art historian (d. 2015)
- August 28 â Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, French photographer (d. 2004)
- September 22 â Will Elder, American illustrator and comic book artist (d. 2008)
- September 25 â Jacques Martin, French comics creator (d. 2010)
- September 27 â Jean-Pierre Sudre, French photographer (d. 1997)
- October 26 â Raymond Nasher, American art collector (d. 2007)
- November 12 â Gerson Leiber, American painter, lithographer and sculptor (d. 2018)
- November 17 â Albert Bertelsen, Danish artist (d. 2019)
- November 26 â Françoise Gilot, French watercolorist and ceramicist (d. 2023)
Deaths
- January 18 â Adolf von Hildebrand, sculptor (born 1847)
- January 30 â John Francis Murphy, landscape painter (born 1853)
- February 2 â Antonio Jacobsen, Danish-American maritime artist (born 1850)
- February 3 â William Strang, painter and engraver (born 1859)
- February 4 â Eugène Burnand, Swiss painter (born 1850)
- February 11 â William Blake Richmond, English painter and designer (born 1842)
- February 21 â George Dunlop Leslie, English genre painter (born 1835)
- March 2 â Johann Friedrich Engel, German painter (born 1844)
- March 23 â Jean-Paul Laurens, painter and sculptor (born 1838)
- March 24 â Marcus Stone, painter and illustrator (born 1840)
- March 30 â Franz Benque, photographer (born 1841)
- April 6 â Vardges Sureniants, Armenian painter (born 1860)
- April 30 â Mabel Esplin, English stained-glass artist (born 1874)
- May 5 â William Friese-Greene, photographer and cinematographer (born 1855)
- May 29 â Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter (born 1849)
- June â Frank Enders, painter and etcher (born 1860)
- October 7 â John Thomson, photographer (born 1837)
- November 1 â Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, painter (born 1848)
- November 12 â Fernand Khnopff, Symbolist painter (born 1858)
- November 13 â William Robert Colton, sculptor (born 1867)