1887 in art

The year 1887 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• March 26–June 8 - Third exhibition by the Société des Artistes Indépendants in Paris.
• November 14 - Paul Gauguin returns to Paris from Martinique.
• December (approx.) - Vincent van Gogh arranges an exhibition of paintings by himself, Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, and (probably) Toulouse-Lautrec in the Restaurant du Chalet, 43 Avenue de Clichy, Montmartre, Paris. Bernard and Anquetin sell their first painting; van Gogh exchanges work with Gauguin.^[1]
• Vincent van Gogh begins his first Sunflowers series of paintings in Paris.
• Walter Crane illustrates "The Architecture of Art" (included in his Claims of Decorative Art, printed later).
• Charles Lang Freer’s first Asian art purchase is a painted Japanese fan.
• Sir John Everett Millais' painting Bubbles is acquired for advertising purposes by Pears soap.

Awards

Works

V.A. Serov - The Girl with Peaches

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Women of Amphissa
• Joseph Boehm - Jubilee Head of Queen Victoria on British coinage
• Thomas Shields Clarke - A Fool's Fool
• Jean-Léon Gérôme - Omphale (sculpture)
• Edward John Gregory - Marooning
• Walter Osborne - On Suffolk Sands
• Valentin Serov - The Girl with Peaches, inaugurating Russian Impressionism

Births

January to June

• 3 January - August Macke, Expressionist painter (d.1914).
• 5 February - Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (d.1973).
• 23 March - Juan Gris, painter and sculptor (d.1927).
• 25 March - Josef Čapek, painter (d.1945).
• May - Jacob Steinhardt, painter and woodcut artist (d.1968).
• 12 May - Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter and sculptor (d.1978).
• 21 May - Barker Fairley, English-born Canadian painter, writer, and educator (d.1986).
• 30 May - Alexander Archipenko, sculptor (d.1964).
• 20 June - Kurt Schwitters, Dadaist painter and writer (d.1948).

July to December

• 7 July - Marc Chagall, Russian-Belarusian-French painter (d.1985).
• 28 July - Marcel Duchamp, influential artist (d.1968).
• 6 October - Le Corbusier, architect and painter (d.1965).
• 9 October - Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, painter (d.1946).
• 1 November - L. S. Lowry, English artist (d.1976).
• 15 November - Georgia O'Keeffe American artist (d.1986).

Deaths

• March 24 - Ivan Kramskoi, painter and art critic (b. 1837)
• June 4 - Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, French sculptor and painter (b. 1824)
• June 5 - Hans von Marées, painter (b. 1837)
• July 8 - John Wright Oakes, landscape painter (b. 1820)
• July 17 - Nicaise de Keyser, painter (b. 1813)
• August 19 - Alvan Clark, American astronomer, telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (b. 1804)
• December 19
  • August Becker, painter (b. 1821)
  • François Bonvin, realist painter (b. 1817)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Battista Amendola, sculptor (b. 1848)
  • Paul Emile Chappuis, photographer (b. 1816)

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