1920 | Art
Art
Painting: Guitar, Book, and Newspaper by cubist Juan Gris; The Mechanic (Le Mécanicien) and The Tug Boat (Le Remorqueur) by Fernand Léger; L'Odalisque by Henri Matisse; Temple Gardens by Paul Klee, whose colorful work is based on memories of a visit to Tunis in April 1914; Here Everything Is Still Floating by German Dadaist Max Ernst, 29; Merzbild 25.A. Des Sternenbild (collage) by Kurt Schwitters, who has conceived the notion of building a cathedral of everyday objects; Portrait of Josie West by Missouri painter Thomas Hart Benton, 31; Church by Paris-born U.S. cubist (Andreas Bernhard) Lyonel Feininger, 49; Brooklyn Bridge by Joseph Stella; Asbury Park South by Florine Stettheimer; Elsie de Wolfe and Miss Natalie Barney, "L'Amazone" by Romaine Brooks, whose latter work depicts Ohio-born expatriate writer Natalie Clifford Barney, 42, whose Paris salon at 30 Jacob in the sixth arondissement attracts a galaxy of literary and intellectual lights each Friday evening; Reclining Nude by Amédéo Modigliani, who dies at Paris January 25 at age 35 (his widow, Jeanne [née Hébuterne], commits suicide the next day, jumping from a window).
Art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler returns to Paris in February, having been out of the city when war broke out in August 1914 and been unable to return because of his German citizenship. His gallery was closed, the works in it were confiscated, they will be auctioned off in the next 2 years, but Kahnweiler, now 35, opens the Galerie Simon in September and will become a French citizen in 1937.
New York's Société Anonyme is founded by Marcel Duchamp, Katherine S. Dreier, and Philadelphia-born Dadaist photographer-painter-sculptor Man Ray (originally Emmanuel Radinski), 30, who will open the city's first modern art museum (see Phillips Collection, 1921; MoMA, 1929).
Goldsmith-jeweler-designer Peter Carl Fabergé dies in exile at Lausanne September 24 at age 74.