The year 1887 in art involved some significant events.
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Events[edit][]
- February (approx.) – Fourth annual exhibition of Les XX, at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels. Artists invited to show in addition to members of the group include Walter Sickert,[1]Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot and Georges-Pierre Seurat.[2] The major work shown is Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.[3]
- 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.[4]
- 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[edit][]
Works[]
- Self-portrait Vincent van Gogh
- Cleopatra Alexandre Cabanel
- Bucht von Langland Alfred Sisley
- Manda Lamétrie, farmer's wife - Alfred Philippe Roll
Births[edit][]
January to June[edit][]
- 3 January – August Macke, Expressionist painter (died 1914).
- 5 February – Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (died 1973).
- 23 March – Juan Gris, painter and sculptor (died 1927).
- 25 March – Josef Čapek, painter (died 1945).
- 29 April – Stanley Cursiter, Scottish painter and curator (died 1976).
- May – Jacob Steinhardt, painter and woodcut artist (died 1968).
- 12 May – Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter and sculptor (died 1978).
- 21 May – Barker Fairley, English-born Canadian painter, writer, and educator (died 1986).
- 30 May – Alexander Archipenko, sculptor (died 1964).
- 20 June – Kurt Schwitters, Dadaist painter and writer (died 1948).
July to December[edit][]
- 7 July – Marc Chagall, Russian-Belarusian-French painter (died 1985).
- 28 July – Marcel Duchamp, influential artist (died 1968).
- 24 September – Frank Newbould, English poster artist (died 1951).
- 6 October – Le Corbusier, architect and painter (died 1965).
- 9 October – Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, painter (died 1946).
- 1 November – L. S. Lowry, English painter (died 1976).
- 15 November – Georgia O'Keeffe American artist (died 1986).
Deaths[edit][]
- March 24 – Ivan Kramskoi, painter and art critic (born 1837)
- June 4 – Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, French sculptor and painter (born 1824)
- June 5 – Hans von Marées, painter (born 1837)
- July 8 – John Wright Oakes, landscape painter (born 1820)
- July 17 – Nicaise de Keyser, painter (born 1813)
- August 19 – Alvan Clark, American astronomer, telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (born 1804)
- December 19
- August Becker, painter (born 1821)
- François Bonvin, realist painter (born 1817)
- date unknown
- Giovanni Battista Amendola, sculptor (born 1848)
- Paul Emile Chappuis, photographer (born 1816)