1926 - Art

Art

Painting: Lover's Bouquet by Marc Chagall; The Palm by Pierre Bonnard; Several Circles by Wassily Kandinsky; Still Life with Musical Instruments by Max Beckmann; The Red House by Edvard Munch; Terrace in Richmond by Oskar Kokoschka; Barfüsserkirche II by Lyonel Feininger; The Last Jockey by Brussels advertising agency artist and surrealist René Magritte, 27; Around the Fish by Paul Klee; Les Acrobates by Francis Picabia, who has given up Dadaism, embraced surrealism, but now uses a figurative style; Blue Iris by Georgia O'Keeffe; Eggplant and Tomatoes by Pennsylvania-born painter Charles Demuth, 42, whose four visits to Europe before the Great War exposed him to the cubists and work by Marcel Duchamp; Interior by Charles Sheeler. Mary Cassatt dies at her country house outside Paris June 14 at age 81 (she has been blind for years); Thomas Moran at Santa Barbara, Calif., August 26 at age 89 (a 12,800-foot peak in the Grand Tetons south of Yellowstone Park has been named in his honor; see environment, 1929); Claude Monet dies at Giverny December 5 at age 86.

Sculpture: Draped Reclining Figure by English sculptor Henry (Spencer) Moore, 28.

New York's Collector of Customs classifies Constantin Brancusi's 1919 Bird in Space "a manufacture of metal" subject to 40 percent duty, photographer Edward Steichen, who has imported the Bird claims it is a work of art and thus exempt from duty under existing laws, and a judge rules that while the Bird may not imitate nature it is a work of art according to the "so-called new school of art" that espouses abstraction.