- 1949 in art
List of years in Art Events
*Foundation of
COBRA (avant-garde movement) Awards
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Archibald Prize :Arthur Murch - "Bonar Dunlop"Works
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Barnett Newman - "Abraham"
*Brenda Chamberlain - "The Fisherman's Return" (National Museum of Wales )
*Salvador Dalí - "The Madonna of Port Lligat " (original version) (Haggerty Museum of Art,Milwaukee, Wisconsin )
*Tadeusz Kantor - "Man with Umbrella"
*Robert Motherwell - "Five in the Afternoon"
*Boris Vladimirski - "Roses for Stalin"Births
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9 April -Stephen Hickman , illustrator, sculptor and author.
*6 July -Tibor Kalman , Hungarian-Americangraphic design er (d.1999).
*15 August - Richard Deacon, sculptor.
*27 August -Istvan Kantor , performance artist.Full date unknown
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Ross Bleckner , painter.
*Deborah Butterfield , sculptor.
*Stephen Hickman , illustrator and sculptor.
*Olivier Rebbot , French photographer (d.1981).Deaths
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March 17 -Aleksandra Ekster , painter and designer, Art Deco pioneer (b. 1882)
*May 3 -Mariano Fortuny , fashion designer (b. 1871)
*August 8 -Joaquín Torres García , Uruguayan painter (b. 1874)
*November 3 -Solomon R. Guggenheim , art collector (b. 1861)
*"date unknown" -Henri Manguin , painter (b. 1874)
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