# 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, Norway.
* 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)
* William Adolphe Bouguereau -The Abduction of Psyche
* 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
* Sydney Prior Hall – Joseph Chamberlain and Arthur Balfour
* 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)
* June 30 – Heinz Warneke, German-born American sculptor (died 1983)
* 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)