1934 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

• Gen Paul is awarded the Légion d'honneur.

Works

See also: Category:1934 paintings

• Eileen Agar – The Autobiography of an Embryo
• Hans Arp – Human Concretion (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
• Raoul Dufy – Regatta at Cowes (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)

Exhibitions

• April - The Unit One group holds its only exhibition, in Cork Street (London), accompanied by a book, Unit 1: the Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture, edited by Herbert Read.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Henry Hanke – Self Portrait

Births

• February 11 – Mary Quant, fashion designer.
• February 27 – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d.1992).
• April 16 – Vicar, comic book artist
• June 20 – Rius, cartoonist
• July 11 – Giorgio Armani, fashion designer
• July 24 – Lee Friedlander, photographer
• date unknown
  • Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland, installation artist.
  • Neil Williams, American painter (d.1988).

Deaths

• March 23 – Wenzel Hablik, painter, graphic artist, designer (b. 1881)
• April 11 – John Collier, painter (b. 1850)
• June 29 – Adolf Kašpar, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
• August 17 - Alexander Borisov, landscape painter (b. 1866)
• September 1 - Yumeji Takehisa, poet and painter (b. 1884)
• October 17 – Adolf Hölzel, German artist/[painter of an Impressionism to expressive modernism style (b. 1853)
• November 4 – Sir Alfred Gilbert, sculptor (b. 1854)
• December 4 – Paul-Albert Besnard, painter (b. 1849)
• December 28 – Pablo Gargallo, painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
• date unknown
  • Alfred Boucher, sculptor (b. 1850)
  • Melvin Ormond Hammond, photographer (b. 1876)