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The year 1887 in art involved some significant events.

Events

  • February (approx.) – Fourth annual exhibition of Les XX, at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. Artists invited to show in addition to members of the group include Walter Sickert,{{cite book|last=Baron|first=Wendy|title=Sickert: paintings and drawings|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven|year=2006|pages=586|isbn=978-0-300-11129-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4S5K_DSH4hgC&dq=%22les+xx%22&pg=PA11|accessdate=2009-12-22}} Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot and Georges-Pierre Seurat.{{cite book|last=Walther|first=Ingo F.|author2=Suckle, Robert|author3=Wundram, Manfred|title=Masterpieces of Western Art|publisher=Taschen|location=Cologne|year=2002|volume=1|page=760|isbn=978-3-8228-1825-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O7YSKD3scdcC&dq=%22les+xx%22&pg=PA746|accessdate=2009-12-22}} The major work shown is Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.{{cite book|last=Clement|first=Russell T.|author2=Houzé, Annick|title=Neo-impressionist painters|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1999|page=396|isbn=978-0-313-30382-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VlEbAeM1wasC&dq=%22les+xx%22&pg=PA3|accessdate=2009-12-22}}
  • March 26 – June 8 – Third exhibition by the Société des Artistes Indépendants in Paris.
  • November 14 – Paul Gauguin and Charles Laval return to Paris from Martinique where they have been living since leaving Panama in June.
  • 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 paintings; van Gogh exchanges work with Gauguin.[http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/510.htm Letter 510], 15 July 1888. There are two short accounts of this exhibition, one based on information supplied by Seurat and the other written by Bernard. For the paintings exchanged, see Annet Tellegen, "Vincent en Gauguin. Schilderijenruil in Parijs", Museumjournaal 1966, pp. 42–44.
  • 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.{{cite book|title=The Athenaeum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_9pBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA802|year=1887|publisher=J. Lection|pages=802}}

Awards

Works

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{{See also|Category:1887 paintings|Category:1887 sculptures}}

Births

=January to June=

  • January 3 – August Macke, German Expressionist painter (died on active service 1914).{{cite book|author1=Anna Meseure|author2=August Macke|title=August Macke, 1887–1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=44ErAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Benedikt Taschen|isbn=978-3-8228-0551-0|page=7}}
  • February 5 – Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (died 1973).
  • March 23 – Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1927).{{cite book|author=Marcel Brion|title=Modern Painting; from Impressionism to Abstract Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u74YAAAAYAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Thames and Hudson|page=95}}
  • March 25 – Josef Čapek, Czech painter (died 1945).
  • April 29 – Stanley Cursiter, Scottish painter and curator (died 1976).
  • May – Jacob Steinhardt, German-born Israeli painter and woodcut artist (died 1968).
  • May 12 – Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter and sculptor (died 1978).
  • May 16 – Laura Wheeler Waring, African-America painter (died 1948){{cite book|author1=Henry Louis Gates|author2=Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham|title=The African American National Biography: Uggams-Zuber|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oisOAQAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-516019-2|page=115}}
  • May 21
  • Barker Fairley, English-born Canadian painter, writer, and educator (died 1986).
  • Paul Maze, French-born Post-Impressionist painter (died 1979).
  • May 22 – Arthur Cravan, born Fabian Avenarius Lloyd, Swiss-born Dadaist writer, poet, artist and boxer (disappeared 1918){{cite book|author=David Chandler|title=Boxer: An Anthology of Writings on Boxing and Visual Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CVhLAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Institute of International Visual Arts|isbn=978-1-899846-04-7|page=99}}
  • May 30 – Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian sculptor (died 1964).
  • June 20 – Kurt Schwitters, German Dadaist painter and writer (died 1948).

=July to December=

Deaths

References

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