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| … 1939 • 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 – 1949 – 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959 … |
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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)