1921 in art
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: W B McInnes - Desbrowe Annear
[edit] 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
- Man Ray (with Erik Satie) - The Gift (readymade sculpture)
- Stanley Spencer
- Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
- Crucifixion
- Han van Meegeren - Hertje ("The fawn")
[edit] Births
[edit] 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).
[edit] 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).
[edit] 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)