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1906 in art

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1906 in art

Events

  • September–October – First group exhibition by Die Brücke, in Dresden.
  • Gwen John begins modelling for Auguste Rodin.
  • Paula Modersohn-Becker begins a series of nude portraits of herself and of other women and children in Paris.
  • Juan Gris, Amedeo Modigliani and Gino Severini all arrive in Paris.
  • Walter Sickert paints music hall scenes in London and Paris.
  • Ferdinand Preiss opens his workshop in Berlin.
  • Works

  • Umberto Boccioni – Self-portrait
  • Antoine Bourdelle – The Fruit (sculpture)
  • Paul Cézanne – The Gardener Vallier
  • Robert Delaunay – L'homme à la tulipe (Portrait de Jean Metzinger)
  • André Derain
  • Charing Cross Bridge, London
  • The Pool of London
  • Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter – Progress of the State (quadriga)
  • J. W. Godward
  • Drusilla
  • Nerissa
  • The Tambourine Girl (two versions)
  • Wilhelm Hammershoi – Interior
  • Ishibashi Kazunori – Lady Reading Poetry
  • Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson – The Hiker (statue)
  • Peder Severin Krøyer – Midsummer Eve Bonfire on Skagen Beach
  • Henri Matisse
  • Le bonheur de vivre
  • Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt
  • The Young Sailor I
  • The Young Sailor II
  • Willard Metcalf – May Night
  • Jean Metzinger
  • Coucher de soleil no. 1
  • Femme au Chapeau
  • La danse (Bacchante)
  • Portrait de Robert Delaunay
  • Paula Modersohn-Becker – Self-portrait
  • Claude Monet – Water Lilies
  • Edvard Munch
  • Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Self-portrait with a bottle
  • Mikhail Nesterov
  • Portrait of E. P. Nesterov
  • Portrait of Olga Nesterova (Woman in a Riding Habit)
  • Maxfield Parrish – Old King Cole and his Fiddlers Three (mural at St. Regis Hotel, New York City)
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Boy Leading a Horse
  • Portrait of Gertrude Stein
  • Self-Portrait with Palette
  • Niko Pirosmani – Feast with Organ-Grinder Datiko Zemel
  • John Singer Sargent – Self-portrait
  • Zinaida Serebriakova – Country Girl
  • Walter Sickert – La Hollandaise
  • Franz von Stuck – Salome
  • Albert Chevallier Tayler – Kent vs Lancashire at Canterbury
  • Ville Vallgren – Havis Amanda (bronze)
  • January to June

  • January 3 – Óscar Domínguez, Spanish surrealist painter (died 1957)
  • January 9 – Janko Brašić, Serbian painter (died 1994)
  • January 13 – Burgoyne Diller, American abstract painter (died 1965)
  • February 28 – Percy Shakespeare, English painter (died 1943)
  • March 8 – Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (died 1978)
  • March 9 – David Smith, American abstract expressionist sculptor (died 1965)
  • March 26 – Henri Cadiou, French realist painter and lithographer (died 1989)
  • March 27 – Bernard Lefebvre, French photographer (died 1992)
  • April 11 – Dale Messick, first woman syndicated comic strip artist in the United States (died 2005)
  • April 14 – Elmyr de Hory, Hungarian-born painter and art forger (d. 1976)
  • April 21 – Lillian Browse, English art dealer and historian (died 2005)
  • May 16 – Alfred Pellan, Canadian artist (died 1988)
  • May 2 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American portrait photographer (died 1979)
  • May 20 – Leon Polk Smith, American painter (died 1996)
  • June 9 – James Boswell, New Zealand painter and draughtsman (died 1971)
  • July to December

  • July 8 – Philip Johnson, architect, art collector, curator (died 2005)
  • August 12 – Tedd Pierce, American animated cartoon writer, animator and artist (died 1972)
  • August 14 – Horst P. Horst, German American photographer (died 1999)
  • August 20 – Heinz Henghes, German sculptor (died 1975)
  • August 21 – Friz Freleng, American animator, cartoonist, director and producer (died 1995)
  • September 5 – Ralston Crawford, painter, lithographer and photographer (died 1978)
  • October 18 – James Brooks, painter and muralist (died 1992)
  • October 24 – Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (died 1996)
  • October 27 – Peter Blume, painter (died 1992)
  • November 26 – Krystyna Dąbrowska, Polish sculptor and painter(died 1944)
  • December 10 – Padraig Marrinan, Irish painter (died 1975)
  • December 14 – Maxwell Bates, Canadian architect and expressionist painter (died 1980)
  • December 27 – Andreas Feininger, French-born American photographer (died 1999)
  • Deaths

  • January 20 – Philippe Solari, French sculptor (born 1840)
  • February – Charles-Auguste Lebourg, French sculptor (born 1829)
  • February 14 – Carl Eneas Sjöstrand, Swedish sculptor (born 1828)
  • March 5 – Hugh Ramsay, Australian painter (born 1877)
  • March 27 – Eugène Carrière, French Symbolist painter (born 1849)
  • March 19 – Étienne Carjat, French portraitist (born 1828)
  • March 29 – Slava Raskaj, Croatian watercolour painter (born 1877)
  • April 5 – Wyke Bayliss, English painter (born 1835)
  • April 14 – Walter Williams, English landscape painter (born 1834)
  • April 19 – Daniel Huntington, American painter (born 1816)
  • June 20 – John Clayton Adams, English landscape artist (born 1840)
  • August 21 – Eugen Felix, Austrian painter (born 1836)
  • August 29 – Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter (born 1828)
  • October 2 – Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter (born 1848)
  • October 22 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (born 1839)
  • November 5 – Frits Thaulow, Impressionist painter (born 1847)
  • December 11 – Axel Lindahl, Swedish landscape photographer (born 1841)
  • December 31 – Julia Goodman, English portrait painter (born 1812)
  • date unknown
  • Antonio Beato, photographer (born c.1825)
  • Thomas Dalziel, engraver (born 1823)
  • Charles Eastlake, architect and furniture designer (born 1836)
  • Charles Edwin Fripp, war artist (born 1854)
  • Maeda Genzō, Japanese photographer (born 1831)
  • References

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