title: 1906 in art
text: # 1906 in art
  
  Events from the year 1906 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * September–October – First group exhibition by Die Brücke, in Dresden.
  * Gwen John begins modelling for Auguste Rodin.
  * Hilma af Klint begins painting abstract art, including the first of her Primordial Chaos series.
  * 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.
  * Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) completed.
  * Dritte Deutsche Kunstgewerbeausstellung Dresden [de] (third German arts and crafts exhibition) took place in Dresden from May 12 to October 31
  
  ## Works
  
  * Umberto Boccioni – Self-portrait
  * Antoine Bourdelle – The Fruit (sculpture)
  * Olga Boznańska – Portrait of a Lady in a White Hat
  * 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
     * Equestrian statue of Charles Devens
     * Progress of the State (quadriga)
  * J. W. Godward
     * Drusilla
     * Nerissa
     * The Tambourine Girl (two versions)
  * Wilhelm Hammershoi – Interior
  * William Le Baron Jenney and Charles Mulligan – Illinois Memorial
  * Robert Henri - El Matador (Felix Asiego)
  * Ishibashi Kazunori – Lady Reading Poetry
  * Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson – The Hiker (statue)
  * Peder Severin Krøyer – Midsummer Eve Bonfire on Skagen Beach
  * Albert Marquet
     * The Beach at Fécamp
     * Fécamp (The Beach at Sainte-Adresse)
  * 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
  * Medardo Rosso – Ecce Puer (sculpted bust)
  * 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
  * Douglas Tilden – California Volunteers (sculpture, San Francisco)
  * Ville Vallgren – Havis Amanda (bronze)
  
  ## Births
  
  ### January to June
  
  * January 2 – Hans Mertens, German painter (died 1944)
  * 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 2 – Jessie Oonark, Canadian Inuit artist (died 1985)
  * 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, American 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, American painter, lithographer and photographer (died 1978)
  * October 18 – James Brooks, American painter and muralist (died 1992)
  * October 24 – Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (died 1996)
  * October 27 – Peter Blume, American 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 17 – Thomas Dalziel, English engraver (born 1823)
  * 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)
  * May – John Mulvany, Irish-born American painter (b. circa 1839)
  * 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)
  * October 28 – Jean Benner, French artist (born 1836)
  * November 5 – Frits Thaulow, Norwegian Impressionist painter (born 1847)
  * December 11 – Axel Lindahl, Swedish landscape photographer (born 1841)
  * November 20 – Charles Eastlake, English architect and furniture designer (born 1836)
  * December 31 – Julia Goodman, English portrait painter (born 1812)
  * date unknown
     * Antonio Beato, Italian-born photographer (born c.1825)
     * Charles Edwin Fripp, English-born war artist (born 1854)
     * Maeda Genzō, Japanese photographer (born 1831)
     * William Linnell, British painter (born 1826)
  