1952 in art
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[edit] Events
- Louis le Brocquy's 1951 painting A Family sparks controversy in Ireland when a group of art patrons offer to present it to the Dublin Municipal Gallery and it is rejected by the Art Advisory Committee on the grounds of incompetence.
- Publication of Un Art Autre, by Michel Tapié.
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Mr Essington Lewis, CH
- Prix Puvis de Chavannes - Tristan Klingsor
[edit] Works
See also: Category:1952 sculptures
- Michael Andrews - A Man who Suddenly Fell Over
- Francis Bacon
- Salvador Dalí - Galatea of the Spheres
- M. C. Escher
- Helen Frankenthaler - Mountains and Sea
- Elisabeth Frink - Bird
- Willem de Kooning - Woman I
- Henri Laurens - L'Amphion (Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas)
- René Magritte - The Listening Room
- Henri Matisse
- series of Blue Nudes, e.g. Blue Nude II (cutout)
- Black Leaf on Green Background (cutout)
- La Négresse (cutout)
- The Sorrows of the King (cutout)
- John Minton - The Death of Nelson
- Jackson Pollock - Blue Poles
- Kay Sage - On the Contrary
- David Smith - Agricola I (sculpture)
- Dorothea Tanning - The Friend's Room
[edit] Exhibitions
- September 25–November 9 - Jacob Epstein retrospective, Tate Gallery, London
[edit] Births
- August 13 - Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2002)
- date unknown - Graham Forsythe, Northern Irish/Canadian painter
[edit] Deaths
- March 3 - Howard Chandler Christy, painter and illustrator (b. 1873)
- May 5 - Alberto Savinio, writer and painter (b. 1891)
- August 16 - Lydia Field Emmet, painter (b. 1866)
- date unknown:
- Arthur Beecher Carles, Modernist painter (b. 1882)
- William Lee Hankey, painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
