1906 in art

Events

Fritz Bleyl poster for the first Die Brücke show

• 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

André Derain, Charing Cross Bridge, London (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

• 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)

Births

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)