Events

• August 31 John Smiukse destroys the mural Nightmare of 1934 in Tarrytown, New York.

Works

• Eileen Agar The Autobiography of an Embryo
• Hans Arp Human Concretion (Mus e National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
• Salvador Dal The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table
• Edwin Dickinson Stranded Brig
• Raoul Dufy Regatta at Cowes (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
• Jacob Epstein Portrait bust of George Bernard Shaw
• M. C. Escher Still Life with Spherical Mirror (lithograph)
• Joan Mir Woman
• Pablo Picasso Minotauromachy
• Diego Rivera Man, Controller of the Universe (mural, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City)

Exhibitions

• April - The Unit One group holds its only exhibition, in Cork Street (London), accompanied by a book, Unit 1: the Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture, edited by Herbert Read.^[1]

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Henry Hanke Self Portrait
• L gion d'honneur: Gen Paul

Births

• February 11 Mary Quant, fashion designer.
• February 27 Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d.1992).
• April 16 Vicar, comic book artist
• June 20 Rius, cartoonist
• July 11 Giorgio Armani, fashion designer
• July 24 Lee Friedlander, photographer
• date unknown
  • Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland, installation artist.
  • Neil Williams, American painter (d.1988).

Deaths

• March 23 Wenzel Hablik, painter, graphic artist, designer (b. 1881)
• April 11 John Collier, painter (b. 1850)
• June 29 Adolf Ka par, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
• August 17 - Alexander Borisov, landscape painter (b. 1866)
• September 1 - Yumeji Takehisa, poet and painter (b. 1884)
• October 17 Adolf H lzel, German artist/[painter of an Impressionism to expressive modernism style (b. 1853)
• November 4 Sir Alfred Gilbert, sculptor (b. 1854)
• December 4 Paul-Albert Besnard, painter (b. 1849)
• December 28 Pablo Gargallo, painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
• date unknown
  • Alfred Boucher, sculptor (b. 1850)
  • Melvin Ormond Hammond, photographer (b. 1876)

See also

• 1934 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References

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