# 1888 in art

The year 1888 in art involved some significant events.

## Events

* January 26 – Paul Gauguin leaves Paris to rejoin the Pont-Aven School of artists in Brittany, where he will remain until October and meet with Émile Bernard
* February – Fifth 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 Henri-Edmond Cross, Albert Dubois-Pillet, Odilon Redon, Paul Signac, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and James McNeill Whistler
* February 21 – Vincent van Gogh moves to Arles where he will be very productive as a painter
* March – Van Gogh begins his Langlois Bridge at Arles series
* March 22 – Fourth exhibition by the Société des Artistes Indépendants opens in Paris; it includes three paintings by van Gogh
* June – Van Gogh visits Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
* July 14
** The Monument à Léon Gambetta, by Jean-Paul Aubé, is inaugurated at the Louvre
** Critic Emile Hennequin drowns at Samois-sur-Seine before his protégé Odilon Redon
* August – Van Gogh begins his Décoration for the Yellow House at Arles including the Arles Sunflowers series of paintings
* August 11 – James McNeill Whistler marries fellow-artist Beatrice ("Trixie") Godwin (née Beatrix Birnie Philip), widow of architect E. W. Godwin, and they spend a working honeymoon in France
* October 3 – Leeds City Art Gallery in England opens
* October 23 – Paul Gauguin joins van Gogh in Arles, bringing Émile Bernard's painting Le Pardon de Pont-Aven
* December 23 – Having quarrelled with Gauguin, van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his own left ear, taking it to a brothel, and is removed to the local hospital
* Paul Ranson, Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis become fellow students at the Académie Julian and form Les Nabis
* The weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic commissions and exhibits in London 21 paintings of Shakespeare's heroines
* William De Morgan moves his London art pottery from Merton Abbey to Fulham
* Publication in English of Irish-born writer George Moore's autobiographical novel Confessions of a Young Man (London) describing bohemian life in 1870s Paris among the Impressionist painters

## Exhibitions

* International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry, in Glasgow, Scotland

## Works

* Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Roses of Heliogabalus
* Reinhold Begas – Centaur and Nymph (bronze)
* Émile Bernard
** Le Pardon de Pont-Aven ("Breton Women in the Meadow")
** Brothel Scene, for Vincent (watercolor)
** Self-portrait with portrait of Paul Gauguin
** The Yellow Tree
* Joseph Boehm
** Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington (Hyde Park Corner, London)
** Queen Victoria Statue (College Green, Bristol)
* William-Adolphe Bouguereau – The First Mourning
* Edward Burne-Jones – The Nativity
* Gustave Caillebotte
** The Plain of Gennevilliers
** Sailing boats at Argenteuil
* Charles Calverley - Statue of Robert Burns (Albany, New York)
* Émile Friant - La Toussaint
* Philip Hermogenes Calderon – Juliet
* William Merritt Chase
** The Blue Kimono
** Modern Magdalen
** Portrait of a Lady in Pink
* Charles Conder – A holiday at Mentone
* David Edward Cronin – Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia
* Édouard Detaille – Le Rêve
* Alexander Doyle – William Jasper Monument
* James Ensor – The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu)
* Akseli Gallen-Kallela – Démasquée
* Andrew Carrick Gow – A Lost Cause
* Paul Gauguin
** Madame Ginoux (drawing)
** The Painter of Sunflowers (December)
** Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les misérables)
** Vision After the Sermon
* Alfred Gilbert – Statue of Queen Victoria (Winchester)
* Antonio Gisbert Pérez - Execution of Torrijos and his Companions on the Beach at Málaga
* Peder Severin Krøyer – Hip, Hip, Hurrah!
* Frederic Leighton – Captive Andromache (approximate date)
* William Logsdail – St Martin-in-the-Fields
* Cesare Maccari – Cicero Denounces Catiline (fresco in Palazzo Madama, Rome)
* Albert Joseph Moore – A River Side
* Philip Richard Morris – Audrey
* Giovanni Muzzioli – The Funeral of Britannicus
* Ilya Repin
** Saint Nicholas of Myra saves three innocents from death
** They Did Not Expect Him
* Paul Sérusier – Le Talisman
* Georges Seurat – completion of Models (Les Poseuses) (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia)
* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – At the Circus Fernando, Equestrienne
* Henry Scott Tuke – The Bathers
* Giovanni Turini – Statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi (bronze, Washington Square Park, New York City)
* John Henry Twachtman – Landscape, Branchville
* J. W. Waterhouse – The Lady of Shalott
* Vincent van Gogh
** Boats on the Beach of Saintes-Maries  [fr] (June)
** Harvest (at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background) (June)
** Corn Harvest in Provence
** Farmhouse in Provence
** La Mousmé
** Sunset at Montmajour (August)
** Cafe Terrace at Night (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo) (September)
** The Night Café (September)
** The Yellow House (September)
** Bedroom in Arles (first version; October)
** The Red Vineyard (November)
** The Sower (Sower with the Setting Sun) (June)
** Tarascon Diligence (October 12)
** Vincent's Chair and Gauguin's Armchair (November)
** Les Arènes (November or December)

## Births

* January 1 – Augustus Dunbier, American painter (died 1977).
* January 17 – Mohamed Nagy, Egyptian painter (died 1956).
* February 22 – Horace Pippin, self-taught African-American painter (died 1946).
* March 12 - Eric Kennington, English sculptor and painter (died 1960).
* March 14 – Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Canadian painter (died 1970).
* March 19 – Josef Albers, German artist, mathematician and educator (died 1976).
* April 6 – Hans Richter, German painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer (died 1976).
* June – David Dougal Williams, English painter (died 1944).
* June 12 – Tom Purvis, English poster artist (died 1959).
* July 10 – Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter (died 1978).
* August 13 – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (died 1975).
* August 14 – Sydney Carline, English painter, war artist (died 1929).
* August 30 – Siri Derkert, Swedish artist, sculptor and political campaigner (died 1973).
* September 4 – Oskar Schlemmer, German sculptor, painter, designer and choreographer (died 1943).
* November 1 – George Kenner, German artist (died 1971)
* November 7 – Mariano Andreu, Spanish painter, enamelling master, sculptor and stage designer (died 1976).
* November 11 – Johannes Itten, Swiss colour theorist, painter and designer (died 1967).
* Stanley Royle, English post-impressionist landscape painter (died 1961).

## Deaths

* January 13 – John William Inchbold, pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1830)
* January 29 – Edward Lear, painter, illustrator and humorous writer (born 1812)
* February 5 – Anton Mauve, painter (born 1838)
* March 15 – Léonard Morel-Ladeuil, goldsmith and sculptor (born 1820)
* May 30 – Louis Buvelot, Swiss-Australian painter (born 1814)
* June 18 – Luigi Mussini, painter (born 1813)
* July 31 – Frank Holl, painter (born 1845)
* August 23 – Philip Henry Gosse, naturalist and illustrator (born 1810)
* August 30 – George O'Brien, engineer and painter (born 1821)
* September 28 – Thomas Gambier Parry, artist and art collector (born 1816)
* October – Frank O'Meara, Irish painter (born 1853)
* November 20 – Nathaniel Currier, illustrator (born 1813)
* date unknown
** Alexander Joseph Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (born 1818)
** Nam Gye-u, Korean painter and government official (born 1811)