1929 in art
overview of the events of 1929 in art
Events from the year 1929 in art.
Events
January 6 – On the death of New York collector Louisine Havemeyer, her collection of paintings, rich in works of Impressionism, is bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
January 10 – First appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero Tintin as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets), begins serialization in children's newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième.
January 17 – First appearance of E. C. Segar's American sailor comic book hero Popeye in Thimble Theatre.
April 30 – English painters Stephen Bone and Mary Adshead marry.
May 6 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1929 opens at Burlington House in London
June 6 – Première of the Surrealist film Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, in Paris.
July 5 – In London, Scotland Yard seizes 13 paintings of male and female nudes by D. H. Lawrence from a Mayfair gallery on grounds of indecency under the Vagrancy Act 1838.
August 21 – Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo marry for the first time, in a civil ceremony in the town hall at Coyoacán.
October
La galerie Goemans opens in Paris with a Surrealist exhibition featuring Jean Arp, Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy and René Magritte.
American artist Lynd Ward publishes his first wordless "novel in woodcuts", Gods' Man, in New York City.
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