1946 in art
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- March – Art collector Peggy Guggenheim publishes the first edition of her autobiographical Out of This Century in the United States.
- April 2 – Jackson Pollock's third solo exhibition opens in the Daylight Gallery of Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan.
- May 22 – The Equestrian statue of Christian V recast in bronze by Einar Utzon-Frank (1688 original by Abraham-César Lamoureux) is unveiled on Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen.
- October 11 – National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina established in Sarajevo.
- October 24 – In a double ceremony, Max Ernst (having been divorced from Peggy Guggenheim) marries Dorothea Tanning and Man Ray marries Juliet Browner in Beverly Hills, California.
- The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism is founded by Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, and others.
- The Borough Group of artists is founded in London by Cliff Holden.
- Jean Dubuffet exhibits the series of works with paint mixed with sand and gravel, Hautes Pâtes, at the Galérie René Drouin.
- Jacob Lawrence begins painting his War Series.
- Sidney Nolan begins his first series of paintings of Ned Kelly.
- David Olère begins to produce artworks based on his experiences as Jewish Sonderkommando inmate 106144 of Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
- Musée de la Chartreuse, Molsheim, France, established (at this time under the name "Musée municipal")
Awards
- Archibald Prize: William Dargie – L C Robson, MC, MA
Works
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- Harold Abbott – Triptych of Suffering
- George Ault – Bright Light at Russell's Corners
- Francis Bacon
- Painting (1946)
- Study for Man with Microphones (later abandoned and slashed by the artist)
- Charles Comfort – Dieppe Raid
- Dean Cornwell – The History of Transportation (lobby mural at 10 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, at this time the headquarters of Eastern Airlines)[1]
- Salvador Dalí – The Temptation of St. Anthony
- Jean Dubuffet – Apartment Houses
- Jacob Epstein – Bust of Winston Churchill
- M. C. Escher – lithographs
- Sawlaram Haldankar – Glow of Hope
- Barbara Hepworth – sculptures
- Pelagos
- Tides
- Edward Hopper – Approaching a City
- Laura Knight – The Nuremberg Trial
- L. S. Lowry – Good Friday, Daisy Nook
- Henri Matisse – L'Asie
- Georgia O'Keeffe – Bare Tree Trunks With Snow
- Pablo Picasso – Woman-Flower
- Ad Reinhardt – How to Look at Modern Art in America[2]
- Norman Rockwell – "Boy in a Dining Car"[3]
- William Scott – The Frying Pan
- Andrew Wyeth – Winter 1946
- Jack Butler Yeats
- Men of Destiny
- The Whistle of a Jacket
Exhibitions
- Contemporary British Art – Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, and the City Art Museum, St Louis.