1946 - Art

Art

Painting: Faun Playing the Pipe, Seated Woman, Joie de Vivre, Femme Fleur, and Françoise with a Yellow Necklace by Pablo Picasso, whose mistress Françoise Gilot will give birth next year to his son Claude; Composition with Branch by Fernand Léger; Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror by Pierre Bonnard; Crucifixion (for St. Matthew's Church, Northampton) by London painter Graham (Vivian) Sutherland, 43, who was official war artist from 1941 to 1945; Eyes in the Heat by Jackson Pollock; Seated Blonde and Child and Mother by Milton Avery; Barn Abstraction by Charles Sheeler; Vessels of Magic by Russian-born New York Abstractionist Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkovich), 42; For All These Rights We've Just Begun to Fight (lithograph) and Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin (gouache and ink on masonite) by Ben Shahn. John Steuart Curry dies at Madison, Wis., August 29 at age 48; Joseph Stella at New York November 5 at age 69; painter-designer-photographer László Moholy-Nagy at Chicago November 24 at age 51.

Pablo Picasso founds a pottery at Vallauris, France.

Sculpture: Elegy II and Pelagos (both wood) by Barbara Hepworth. Sculptor Elie Nadelman commits suicide after a long illness at his 16-acre Riverdale, N.Y., estate December 28 at age 64, having amassed (with his wife, Viola) a collection of American folk art numbering some 15,000 pieces.