title: 1895 in art
text: # 1895 in art
  
  The year 1895 in art involved some significant events.
  
  ## Events
  
  * January 1 – Alphonse Mucha's lithographed poster for the play Gismonda starring Sarah Bernhardt is posted in Paris. Bernhardt is so satisfied with its success that she gives Mucha a six-year contract.
  * April 13 – The Russian Museum is established in Saint Petersburg by Nicholas II.
  * April 30 – First Venice Biennale opens.
  * July 3 – Paul Gauguin leaves France to settle permanently in Polynesia.
  * October – Edvard Munch exhibits an extended series of his Love paintings in Christiania.
  * November – Paul Cézanne has his first solo exhibition, at the Paris gallery of Ambroise Vollard.
  * Munch (probably) writes "Could only have been painted by a madman" (Kan kun være malet af en gal Mand!) on his 1893 painting The Scream.
  * Bernard Berenson publishes Lorenzo Lotto: An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism.
  * P. H. Emerson publishes his last photographic book, Marsh Leaves.
  * M. H. de Young Memorial Museum opened in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Lawrence Alma-Tadema – A Coign of Vantage
  * Aubrey Beardsley – Venus Between Terminal Gods (ink drawing)
  * John Cassidy – Statue of Edward Colston (Bristol)
  * Paul Cézanne
     * The Boy in the Red Vest
     * Still Life with Cherub (approximate date)
  * Edgar Degas
     * After the Bath, Woman drying herself (probable latest date)
     * Photographic self-portrait
  * Thomas Eakins – Portrait of Maud Cook
  * Paul Gauguin – Oviri (stoneware)
  * Countess Feodora von Gleichen – Statue of Queen Victoria surrounded by children, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
  * J. W. Godward
     * Mischief And Repose
     * The Muse Erato At Her Lyre
  * Winslow Homer
     * Cannon Rock
     * Northeaster
  * George W. Joy
     * The Bayswater Omnibus
     * Joan of Arc
  * Sir Frederic Leighton
     * Candida
     * Flaming June
     * Lachrymae
     * Listener
     * The Maid with the Golden Hair
     * A Study
     * 'Twixt hope and fear
  * Isaac Levitan – Fresh Wind. Volga
  * Juan Luna
     * La Bulaqueña
     * Tampuhan
  * Henry Arthur McArdle – Battle of San Jacinto
  * Louis Maurer – The Great Royal Buffalo Hunt
  * Gustave Moreau – Jupiter and Semele
  * Edvard Munch
     * After the Fall of Man (Ashes)
     * Jealousy
     * Madonna
     * Self-Portrait with Cigarette
     * Self-Portrait with Skeleton Arm (lithograph)
  * Roderic O'Conor – La Jeune Bretonne
  * Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Gabrielle et Jean
  * Tom Roberts – Bailed Up
  * John Singer Sargent – Frederick Law Olmsted
  * Carlos Schwabe – La mort du fossoyeur ("The Death of the Gravedigger")
  * Valentin Serov – Portrait of Countess Varvara Musina-Pushkina
  * Marianne Stokes – St. Elizabeth of Hungary Spinning for the Poor
  * Théophile Steinlen – Les Chanteurs des Rues
  * Vardges Sureniants – Desecrated Shrine
  * Dorothy Tennant – L'Amour Blessé
  * James Tissot – La femme préhistorique
  * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Portrait of Oscar Wilde
  * Louis Tuaillon – Amazone zu Pferde (bronze equestrian statue, Berlin)
  * Laurits Tuxen – The Wedding of Tsar Nicholas II
  * John Henry Twachtman – The White Bridge (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
  * Félix Vallotton – Clair de lune ("Moonlight")
  * J. Alden Weir – The Ice Cutters
  * W. L. Wyllie – The Opening of Tower Bridge
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 21 – Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (died 1972)
  * February 6 – Franz Radziwill, German painter (died 1983)
  * March 1 – Ogura Yuki, Japanese nihonga painter (died 2000)
  * March 4 – Mikuláš Galanda, Slovak modernist painter and illustrator (died 1938)
  * March 29 – Anne Redpath, Scottish still life painter (died 1965)
  * April 7
     * Jim Ede, English art collector (died 1990)
     * John Bernard Flannagan, American sculptor (suicide 1942)
  * May 8 – Georg Muche, German painter (died 1987)
  * June 3 – Frank McKelvey, Irish painter (died 1974)
  * June 5 – William Roberts, British painter (died 1980)
  * July 2 – Gen Paul, French painter and engraver (died 1975)
  * July 19 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (died 1953)
  * August 7 – Alain Saint-Ogan, French comics author and artist (died 1974)
  * August 13 – Gluck, born Hannah Gluckstein, English painter (died 1978)
  * August 17 – Talbert Abrams, American "father of aerial photography" (died 1990)
  * November 1 – David Jones, British poet and painter (died 1974)
  * December 26 – Jefto Perić, Serbian painter (died 1967)
  * date unknown
     * Ilija Bašičević, Serbian painter and father of painter-sculptor Dimitrije Bašičević (died 1972)
     * Marguerite Huré, French stained glass artist (died 1967)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 5 – Władysław Podkowiński, Polish painter and illustrator (born 1866)
  * February 1 – Mary Thornycroft, English sculptor (born 1809)
  * February 8 – Jean-François Portaels, Belgian painter (born 1818)
  * March 2 – Berthe Morisot, French Impressionist painter (born 1841)
  * March 6 – Edwin Forbes, American landscape painter and etcher (born 1839)
  * April 19 – Sir George Scharf, English art critic (born 1820)
  * April 21 – Arthur Gilbert, English landscape painter (born 1819)
  * May 24 – Joseph Quinaux, Belgian landscape painter (born 1822)
  * September 9 – Gaetano Milanesi, Italian art historian (born 1813)
  * September 21 – Silvestro Lega, Italian realist painter (born 1826)
  * November 23 – Mauritz de Haas, Dutch-American marine painter (born 1832)
  