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List of years in Art

Events

• Foundation of COBRA (avant-garde movement)

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Arthur Murch - Bonar Dunlop

Works

Alberto Giacometti, Three Men Walking II

See also: Category:1949 paintings

• 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

Births

• 9 April - Stephen Hickman, illustrator, sculptor and author.
• 6 July - Tibor Kalman, Hungarian-American graphic designer (d.1999).
• 15 August - Richard Deacon, sculptor.
• 27 August - Istvan Kantor, performance artist.

Full date unknown

• Ross Bleckner, painter.
• Deborah Butterfield, sculptor.
• Stephen Hickman, illustrator and sculptor.
• Olivier Rebbot, French photographer (d.1981).

Deaths

• March 17 - Aleksandra Ekster, painter and designer, Art Deco pioneer (b. 1882)
• May 3 - Mariano Fortuny, fashion designer (b. 1871)
• August 8 - Joaquín Torres García, Uruguayan painter (b. 1874)
• November 3 - Solomon R. Guggenheim, art collector (b. 1861)
• date unknown - Henri Manguin, painter (b. 1874)