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1944 in art
Summary
Events from the year
1944 in art
.
List of years in art
(
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)
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Events
edit
June 6
–
Normandy landings
:
Robert Capa
takes "
The Magnificent Eleven
" photographs.
July –
Dulwich Picture Gallery
in London is substantially damaged by a
V-1 flying bomb
; half a dozen paintings are destroyed, but most have been evacuated to
Aberystwyth
.
Autumn –
Peggy Guggenheim
's
The Art of This Century gallery
on Manhattan releases a 78 rpm 3-record album containing
Paul Bowles
' Sonata for Flute and Piano and Two Mexican Dances with a cover by
Max Ernst
.
[1]
Clandestine publication of
Vaincre
, an album of 12 colour lithographs by 8 artists in support of the
French Resistance
.
Awards
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Archibald Prize
:
Joshua Smith
–
Hon Sol Rosevear, MHR, Speaker of the House of Representatives
Exhibitions
edit
Jean Dubuffet
's first solo exhibition.
Works
edit
Epstein
–
Lucifer
David Aronson
–
The Last Supper
Duffy Ayers
–
Portrait of Tirzah Garwood
Francis Bacon
–
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
David Bomberg
–
Evening in the City of London
Stella Bowen
–
Bomber Crew
Robert Capa
– "
The Magnificent Eleven
" (photographs)
William Coldstream
–
Casualty Reception Station, Capua
Salvador Dalí
–
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
Tristan and Isolde
created for the ballet
Mad Tristan
by
Leonide Massine
and Dali which in turn was inspired by the opera
Tristan und Isolde
by
Richard Wagner
[2]
[3]
Paul Delvaux
–
Sleeping Venus
Jacob Epstein
– sculptures
First Portrait of Esther (with long hair)
Lucifer
George Grosz
–
Cain, or Hitler in Hell
Jean Hélion
–
The Stairway
Bror Hjorth
–
Gås-Anders
(sculpture)
Frida Kahlo
The Broken Column
Diego and Frida 1929-1944
Dame
Laura Knight
–
Take Off
Fernand Léger
–
Three Musicians
(
Museum of Modern Art
,
New York
)
Henri Matisse
–
Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones
Joan Miró
–
Barcelona Series
(
lithographs
)
Piet Mondrian
(died February 1) –
Victory Boogie-Woogie
(unfinished)
Walter Thomas Monnington
Southern England: Spitfires Attacking Flying-bombs
Tempests Attacking Flying-bombs
Felix Nussbaum
–
Triumph of Death
Pablo Picasso
–
Man with Sheep
(sculpture)
William Roberts
The Ballet
The Ferry (at Marston near Oxford)
Parson's Pleasure (On the Lawn)
Robert F. Sargent
–
Into the Jaws of Death
(photograph)
Ben Shahn
–
The Red Stairway
Births
edit
9 January
–
Ian Hornak
, American painter and draughtsman (d.
2002
).
10 January
–
Jeff Jones
, American illustrator.
12 February
-
Jane Livingston
, American curator.
4 March
–
Glen Baxter
, English cartoonist.
29 March
–
Abbas
, Iranian-born documentary photographer (d.
2018
).
4 April
–
Phyllida Barlow
, English sculptor (d.
2023
).
8 May
–
David Vaughan
, English psychedelic artist and muralist (d.
2003
).
24 July
–
Maya Wildevuur
, Dutch painter (d.
2023
).
4 August
–
Allan McCollum
, American conceptual artist, all media.
15 August
–
Gianfranco Ferré
, Italian fashion designer (d.
2007
).
20 August
–
Brian Barnes
, English mural artist.
27 August
–
Catherine Leroy
,
French
-born photographer (d.
2006
).
1 September
–
Louis Delsarte
, American painter (d.
2020
).
4 November
Don Eddy
, American painter.
Michael Heizer
, American sculptor, earth artist.
23 November
–
Peter Lindbergh
, born Peter Brodbeck, Polish-born fashion photographer (d.
2019
).
Full date unknown
edit
Richard Mock
, American painter, sculptor and cartoonist (d.
2006
).
Allen Ruppersberg
, American conceptual artist, installation artist.
Deaths
edit
January 23
–
Edvard Munch
, Norwegian expressionist painter (b.
1863
)
February 1
–
Piet Mondrian
, Dutch abstract painter (b.
1872
)
February 26
–
Lucienne Heuvelmans
, French sculptor (b.
1885
?)
April 25
–
George Herriman
, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (b.
1880
)
July 18
–
Rex Whistler
, English painter (killed in action) (b.
1905
)
August 2
–
Felix Nussbaum
, German Jewish surrealist painter (in
Auschwitz concentration camp
) (b.
1904
)
August 18
–
Hans Mertens
, German painter (b.
1906
)
September 3
–
William Logsdail
, English landscape, portrait and genre painter (b.
1859
)
September 27
Aristide Maillol
, French sculptor (b.
1861
)
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
, Russian-born color photographer (b.
1863
)
David Dougal Williams
, British painter (b.
1888
)
October 14
–
Marko Murat
, Serbian painter (b.
1864
)
October 21
–
Hilma af Klint
, Swedish abstract painter and mystic (b.
1862
)
November 22
– Sir
George Clausen
, English artist (b.
1852
)
December 10
–
Miklós Ligeti
, Hungarian sculptor (b.
1871
)
December 13
–
Wassily Kandinsky
, Russian abstract painter (b.
1866
)
December 24
–
Alfred Drury
, English sculptor (b.
1856
)
Undated –
Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse
, English flower painter (b.
1857
)
See also
edit
1944 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
edit
^
Prose, Francine
(2015).
Peggy Guggenheim: the shock of the new
. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 140.
ISBN
978-0-300-20348-6
.
^
"Salvador Dali painting Mad Tristan not seen since 1944 | The Star".
The Toronto Star
. 5 November 2012.
^
"Salvador Dali's "Mad Tristan" leaves the noumenal and returns to the world of phenomenon".