1921 in art

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Events

• September–October - 5x5=25 abstract art exhibition held in Moscow.
• Paul Sérusier publishes his ABC of Painting.
• André Delatte opens his glasswares studio in Nancy.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: W B McInnes - Desbrowe Annear

Works

Mr Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro, a self portrait

See also: Category:1921 sculptures

• Carlo Carrà - The Engineer's Lover
• Charles Demuth - Incense of a New Church
• Marcel Duchamp - Why Not Sneeze, Rose Sélavy? (assisted readymade)
• Max Ernst - The Elephant Celebes
• Lady Feodora Gleichen - 37th (British) Division memorial (Monchy-le-Preux, France)
• Auguste Herbin - Le Cateau-Cambrésis
• Edward Hopper - Girl at Sewing Machine
• Fernand Léger - Still Life with a Beer Mug
• Wyndham Lewis - Mr Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro
• Sir Bertram Mackennal - Bronze equestrian statue of King Edward VII (Waterloo Place, London)
• Piet Mondrian
  • Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue
  • Tableau I
• Alfred Munnings - The Red Prince Mare
• Francis Picabia - Cannibale
• Pablo Picasso
  • Reading the Letter
  • Three Musicians (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• Man Ray (with Erik Satie) - The Gift (readymade sculpture)
• Stanley Spencer
  • Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
  • Crucifixion
• Han van Meegeren - Hertje ("The fawn")

Births

January to June

• January 1 - César Baldaccini, sculptor (d.1998)
• January 14 - Norris Embry, painter
• January 24 - Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer (d.1998).
• January 27 - Georges Mathieu, painter.
• February 2 - Pietro Cascella, Italian painter and sculptor (d.2008).
• February 5 - Ken Adam, set designer.
• February 13 - Louis Féraud, French fashion designer and artist (d.1999)
• February 20 - Michael Ayrton, English sculptor, graphic artist and writer (d.1975)
• February 22 - Cecil King, Irish abstract-minimalist painter (d.1986)
• February 23 - John Latham, Zambian conceptual artist (d.2006).
• March 2 - Ernst Haas, Austrian photographer (d.1986)
• March 13 - Al Jaffee, cartoonist
• March 28 Norman Bluhm, painter (d.1999)
• April 23 - William Brice, American painter and teacher (d.2008).
• April 25 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor and poet (d.2006).

July to December

• July 16 - Guy Laroche, French fashion designer (d.1989).
• August 4 - Jean Pierre Capron, French painter (d.1997)
• August 28 - Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, French photographer (d.2004)
• September 22 - Will Elder, American illustrator and comic book artist (d.2008).
• September 25 - Jacques Martin, comics creator.
• 27 September - Jean-Pierre Sudre, French photographer (d.1997).
• 26 October - Raymond Nasher, American art collector (d.2007).
• date unknown - Enzo Plazzotta, Italian-born British sculptor (d.1981).

Deaths

• January 18 - Adolf von Hildebrand, sculptor (born 1847)
• January 30 - John Francis Murphy, landscape painter (born 1853)
• February 3 - William Strang, painter and engraver (born 1859)
• February 4 - Eugène Burnand, Swiss painter (born 1850)
• February 11 - William Blake Richmond, painter and interior decorator (born 1842)
• March 23 - Jean-Paul Laurens, painter and sculptor (born 1838)
• March 24 - Marcus Stone, painter and illustrator (born 1840)
• March 30 - Franz Benque, photographer (born 1841)
• May 5 - William Friese-Greene, photographer and cinematographer (born 1855)
• May 29 - Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter (born 1849)
• June - Frank Enders, painter and etcher (born 1860)
• October 7 - John Thomson, photographer (born 1837)
• November 1 - Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, painter (born 1848)
• November 12 - Fernand Khnopff, surrealist painter (born 1858)
• November 13 - William Robert Colton, sculptor (born 1867)