1942 - Art

Art

Painting: L'Aubade and Reclining Nude (his mistress Dora Maar) by Pablo Picasso; Dancer in an Armchair with Checkered Floor by Henri Matisse, who depicts his dancer friend Carla Avogadro; Patience by Georges Braque; L'Oiseau bleu, Bath Mitten, and Still Life with Bottle by Pierre Bonnard; Male and Female by Jackson Pollock; Woman by Willem de Kooning, whose work shows the influence of Picasso; American Clipper (watercolor) by Lyonel Feininger. Walter Sickert dies at Bath January 23 at age 81; Grant Wood at Iowa City February 12 at age 49. An Art of This Century exhibition opens at New York October 20 under the direction of copper heiress Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim, 44, who has married German painter Max Ernst.

Sculpture: Construction from a Circle by Swiss sculptor-graphic artist Max Bill, 33, who has studied architect at Germany's Bauhaus and will soon become active as an industrial designer; Francesca by Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzu (originally Manzoni), 33, whose seated nude wins the Grand Prix of the Rome Quadrienalle (he has been creating variations on nude girls seated on kitchen chairs since 1933, cardinals in their tall mitres since 1936, and had his first one-man show 5 years ago).

Sculptress-museum founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney dies of heart disease at New York April 18 at age 67. She leaves a bequest that will be used to build a new Whitney Museum of American Art (see 1966).