1889 in art

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1889 in art

The year 1889 in art involved some significant events.

Events

February 2 – Sixth annual exhibition of Les XX opens in Brussels, including the first important display of Paul Gauguin's work.
May 6 – October 31 – Exposition Universelle in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower as its entrance arch.
May 8 – Van Gogh moves from Arles to the Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
June – The Volpini Exhibition: Exposition de peintures du Groupe impressioniste et synthétiste, faite dans le local de M. Volpini au Champ-de-Mars organised by Paul Gauguin and Émile Schuffenecker at the Café des Arts in Paris; other exhibitors include Émile Bernard and Charles Laval.
July 15 – The Scottish National Portrait Gallery opens in Edinburgh^[1] in premises designed by Rowand Anderson, the first in the world to be purpose-built as a portrait gallery.^[2]
July 23 – Marie Triepcke marries fellow-artist Peder Severin Krøyer in Augsburg.
August 17 – The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition opens in Melbourne, Australia.
Edvard Munch stages his first one-man exhibition and wins a state scholarship to study in Paris.
Alfred Sisley settles at Moret-sur-Loing.
The Skulpturensammlung moves into the Albertinum in Dresden.
The Imperial Museum of Nara is established in Japan.^[3]

Works

Jean Béraud - La Pâtisserie Gloppe
Pierre Bonnard – Self-portrait (approx. date)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
- Première rêverie
- The Shepherdess
Antoine Bourdelle – Adam
Henry Jamyn Brooks – Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
Milly Childers – Self-portrait Archived 2012-04-25 at the Wayback Machine
Henry de Groux – Christ aux Outrages
Thomas Eakins – The Agnew Clinic
Paul Gustav Fischer – The Royal Theatre Ballet School, Copenhagen
Stanhope Forbes – The Health of the Bride
Henry Justice Ford – Illustrations to Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book
Louis Édouard Fournier – The Funeral of Shelley
Paul Gauguin
- The Green Christ and The Yellow Christ (Pont-Aven, c. September)
- Portrait of Jacob Meijer de Haan (Le Pouldu, after October 2)
- Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake (Le Pouldu, after October 2)
- The Flageolet Player on the Cliff (Le Pouldu)
Alfred Gilbert – Marble bust of Queen Victoria
J. W. Godward
- Grecian Reverie
- His Birthday Gift
- Ianthe
- Waiting For An Answer
Félix Resurrección Hidalgo – La Parisienne
Jozef Israëls – A Son of the Ancient Race (several versions)
Juan Luna – Hymen o Hymenee
Frederick McCubbin – Down on His Luck
Arturo Michelena – La Joven Madre ("The Young Mother")
Claude Monet – The Valley of the Creuse, Sunset
Edvard Munch
- Inger on the Beach, Summer Night
- Music on Karl Johan Street
- Spring
Blanche Nevin – Peter Muhlenberg (marble)
Eilif Peterssen – Salmon Fishermen at Nesøya
Ilya Repin – Portrait of Baroness Varvara Ivanovna Ikskul von Hildenbandt
Auguste Rodin – The Burghers of Calais (sculpture)
John Singer Sargent
- Gabriel Fauré
- Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth
- Lady Fishing - Mrs Ormond
- An Out-of-Doors Study
Henryk Siemiradzki – Phryne at the Poseidonia in Eleusis
Arthur Streeton – Golden Summer, Eaglemont
Franz Stuck – The Guardian of Paradise
Vincent van Gogh
- Hospital in Arles series
  - Garden of the Hospital in Arles (June)
  - Ward in the Hospital in Arles (October)
  - Portrait of Doctor Félix Rey (January)
- Self-portrait and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (January)
- Self-Portrait as a sick person (Saint-Rémy, August)^[4]
- Bedroom in Arles (second and third versions, September)
- View of Arles, Flowering Orchards and View of Arles with Trees in Blossom (Spring)
- Butterflies series (Spring)
- Irises
- Rain (Saint-Rémy, October/November)
- The Ravine of the Peyroulets
- A Road at Saint-Remy with Female Figure
- The Starry Night (Saint-Rémy, June)
- Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy series
  - Trees and Undergrowth series
- Portrait of Trabuc, an Attendant at Saint-Paul Hospital and Portrait of Madame Trabuc (Saint-Rémy, September)
- Two Crabs (c. January)
- Wheat Fields series
  - Wheat Field, Sunrise (Saint-Rémy)
  - Wheat Field with Cypresses (three paintings, Saint-Rémy, July–September)
  - Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves (after Millet)
Carl von Marr – The Flagellants
Fritz von Uhde – Heathland princess
Édouard Vuillard – Self-portrait
John Quincy Adams Ward – Bust of Alexander Lyman Holley (bronze, New York City)

Births

January 19 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss geometric abstract painter, sculptor and dancer (died 1943)^[5]
January 21 – Hermann Glöckner, German Constructivist painter and sculptor (died 1987)
April 15 – Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and muralist (died 1975)
May 11 – Paul Nash, English painter (died 1946)
June 13 – Gao Qifeng, Chinese painter (died 1933)
July 31 – Júlíana Sveinsdóttir, Icelandic painter and textile artist (died 1966)
August 13 – C. R. W. Nevinson, English war artist (died 1946)
August 20 – David Kakabadze, Georgian artist (died 1952)
September 28 – Seán Keating, Irish romantic-realist painter (died 1977)
October 10 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter and art forger (died 1947)
October 17 – Karl Völker, German painter and architect (died 1962)
October 29 – Edward Wadsworth, English painter (died 1949)
November 1 – Hannah Höch, German Dada photomontage artist (died 1978)^[6]
November 10 – Clive Stephen, Australian sculptor (died 1957)

Deaths

January 23 – Alexandre Cabanel, painter (born 1823)
February 5 – James Smetham, pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1821)
February 24 – Philip Henry Delamotte, photographer and illustrator (born 1821)
May 23 – John O'Connor, painter (born 1830)
October 6 – Jules Dupré, painter (born 1811)
December 27 – Eduard Bendemann, painter (born 1811)
date unknown – Jules Tavernier, French painter (born 1844)

References

↑ "The Scottish National Portrait Gallery". The Times. No. 32752. London. 1889-07-16. p. 5.
↑ "The History of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery". History & Architecture. National Galleries of Scotland. Archived from the original on May 31, 2012.
↑ Institutional overview (PDF) (in Japanese), IAI National Museum, 2005, p. 15, archived from the original (PDF) on August 16, 2009
↑ Brown, Mark (2020-01-20). "Gloomy Van Gogh self-portrait in Oslo gallery confirmed authentic". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
↑ Gaze, Delia (2001). Concise Dictionary of Women Artists. London: Fitzroy Deerborn. p. 651. ISBN 978-1-57958-335-4.
↑ Biro, Matthew (2009). The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-81663-620-4.

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[1] "The Scottish National Portrait Gallery". The Times. No. 32752. London. 1889-07-16. p. 5.

[2] "The History of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery". History & Architecture. National Galleries of Scotland. Archived from the original on May 31, 2012.

[3] Institutional overview (PDF) (in Japanese), IAI National Museum, 2005, p. 15, archived from the original (PDF) on August 16, 2009

[4] Brown, Mark (2020-01-20). "Gloomy Van Gogh self-portrait in Oslo gallery confirmed authentic". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2020-01-28.

[5] Gaze, Delia (2001). Concise Dictionary of Women Artists. London: Fitzroy Deerborn. p. 651. ISBN 978-1-57958-335-4.

[6] Biro, Matthew (2009). The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-81663-620-4.

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