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Overview of the events of 1888 in art
Events
February – Fifth annual exhibition of Les XX , at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels. Artists invited to show in addition to members of the group include Henri-Edmond Cross , Albert Dubois-Pillet ,[ 1] Odilon Redon ,[ 2] Paul Signac , Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and James McNeill Whistler .[ 3]
February 21 – Vincent van Gogh moves to Arles where he will be very productive as a painterMarch – Van Gogh begins his Langlois Bridge at Arles series
March 22 – Fourth exhibition by the Société des Artistes Indépendants opens in Paris ; it includes three paintings by van GoghJune – Van Gogh visits Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
July 14 – The Monument à Léon Gambetta, by Jean-Paul Aubé , is inaugurated at the Louvre August – Van Gogh begins his Décoration for the Yellow Housethe Arles Sunflowers series of paintings
August 11 – James McNeill Whistler marries fellow-artist Beatrice ("Trixie") Godwin (née Beatrix Birnie Philip), widow of architect E. W. Godwin , and they spend a working honeymoon in France.October 23 – Paul Gauguin joins van Gogh in Arles, bringing Émile Bernard 's painting Le Pardon de Pont-Aven December 23 – Having quarrelled with Gaugin, van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his own left ear in a brothel and is removed to the local hospital Paul Ranson , Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis become fellow students at the Académie Julian and form Les Nabis The weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic Shakespeare 's heroines.[ 4]
William De Morgan moves his London art pottery from Merton Abbey to Fulham .Publication in English of Irish-born writer George Moore 's autobiographical novel Confessions of a Young Man bohemian life in 1870s Paris among the Impressionist painters.
Exhibitions
Works
J. W. Waterhouse – The Lady of Shalott van Gogh - The Yellow House
Births
January 1 – Augustus Dunbier , American painter (died 1977 ).January 17 – Mohamed Nagy , Egyptian painter (died 1956 ).February 22 – Horace Pippin , self-taught African-American painter (died 1946 ).March 14 – Marc-Aurèle Fortin , Canadian painter (died 1970 ).March 19 – Josef Albers , German artist, mathematician and educator (died 1976 ).April 6 – Hans Richter , German painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer (died 1976).June 12 – Tom Purvis , English poster artist (died 1959 ).July 10 – Giorgio de Chirico , Greek -Italian painter (died 1978 ).August 13 – Gleb W. Derujinsky , Russian-American sculptor (died 1975 ).August 30 – Siri Derkert , Swedish artist, sculptor and political campaigner (died 1973 ).November 7 – Mariano Andreu , Spanish painter, enamelling master, sculptor and stage designer (died 1976).November 11 – Johannes Itten , Swiss colour theorist, painter and designer (died 1967 ).Stanley Royle , English post-impressionist landscape painter (died 1961 ).
Deaths
January 13 – John William Inchbold , pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1830 )January 29 – Edward Lear , painter, illustrator and humorous writer (born 1812 )February 5 – Anton Mauve , painter (born 1838 )March 15 – Léonard Morel-Ladeuil , goldsmith and sculptor (born 1820 )May 30 – Louis Buvelot , Swiss-Australian painter (born 1814 )June 18 – Luigi Mussini , painter (born 1813 )July 31 – Frank Holl , painter (born 1845 )August 23 – Philip Henry Gosse , naturalist and illustrator (born 1810 )August 30 – George O'Brien , engineer and painter (born 1821 )September 28 – Thomas Gambier Parry , artist and art collector (born 1816 )October – Frank O'Meara , Irish painter (born 1853 )
November 20 – Nathaniel Currier , illustrator (born 1813)date unknown
Awards
References
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