List of years in Art

Events

• Publication of Un Art Autre, by Michel Tapié

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Mr Essington Lewis, CH
• Prix Puvis de Chavannes - Tristan Klingsor

Works

• Francis Bacon - Figure in a landscape
• Helen Frankenthaler - Mountains and Sea
• Elisabeth Frink - Bird
• Henri Laurens - L'Amphion (Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas)
• Henri Matisse - series of Blue Nudes
• Jackson Pollock - Blue Poles

Exhibitions

Births

• 13 August - Herb Ritts, American photographer (d.2002).
• Graham Forsythe - Northern Irish/Canadian painter

Deaths

• March 3 - Howard Chandler Christy, painter
• May 5 - Alberto Savinio, writer and painter (b. 1891)
• August 16 - Lydia Field Emmet, painter (b. 1866)
• date unknown - Arthur Beecher Carles, Modernist painter

sv:Konståret 1952