1952 in art

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Events

• Publication of Un Art Autre, by Michel Tapié

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Mr Essington Lewis, CH
• Prix Puvis de Chavannes - Tristan Klingsor

Works

See also: Category:1952 paintings

• Francis Bacon - Figure in a landscape
• Helen Frankenthaler - Mountains and Sea
• Elisabeth Frink - Bird
• Henri Laurens - L'Amphion (Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas)
• Henri Matisse - series of Blue Nudes
• Jackson Pollock - Blue Poles

Births

• 13 August - Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2002)
• date unknown - Graham Forsythe, Northern Irish/Canadian painter

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)

See also

• 1952 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union