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See also: 1948 in art, other events of 1949, 1950 in art, list of years in art

Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Foundation of COBRA (avant-garde movement)

[edit] Works

• Barnett Newman - Abraham
• Brenda Chamberlain - The Fisherman's Return (National Museum of Wales)
• Salvador Dalí - The Madonna of Port Lligat (original version) (Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
• Tadeusz Kantor - Man with Umbrella
• Robert Motherwell - Five in the Afternoon
• Boris Vladimirski - Roses for Stalin

[edit] Births

• April 9 - Stephen Hickman, illustrator, sculptor, author
• August 15 - Richard Deacon, sculptor
• August 27 - Istvan Kantor, performance artist

[edit] Deaths

• March 17 - Aleksandra Ekster, painter and designer, Art Deco pioneer
• May 3 - Mariano Fortuny, fashion designer
• Solomon R. Guggenheim, art collector