1949 - Art

Art

Painting: The Kitchen by Pablo Picasso; Leisure, Homage to David (Les Loisirs, hommage à David) by Fernand Léger; Evening Sun (Abendsonne) by Emil Nolde; Beginning (triptych) by Max Beckmann, who moved to New York 2 years ago; Number 2 by Jackson Pollock; Onement III by New York abstract expressionist Barnett (originally Baruch) Newman, 44; Buildings at Lebanon by Charles Sheeler; Somerset Maugham (expressionistic portrait) by Graham Sutherland. Walt Kuhn dies of a perforated stomach ulcer at White Plains, N.Y., July 12 at age 71 (he has been mentally deranged for about a year); José Clemente Orozco dies at Mexico City September 7 at age 65; copper heir-art patron Solomon R. Guggenheim at Port Washington, N.Y., November 3 at age 88 (see museum, 1959); Baron James Ensor dies at Ostend November 19 at age 89 (a recluse since 1900, he was raised to the peerage by Albert of the Belgians in 1929).

Sculpture: Rhythmic Form (wood) by Barbara Hepworth.