# 1889 in art

The year 1889 in art involved some significant events.

## Events

* February 2 – Sixth annual exhibition of Les XX opens in Brussels, including the first important display of Paul Gauguin's work.
* May 6 – October 31 – Exposition Universelle in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower as its entrance arch.
* May 8 – Van Gogh moves from Arles to the Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
* June – The Volpini Exhibition: Exposition de peintures du Groupe impressioniste et synthétiste, faite dans le local de M. Volpini au Champ-de-Mars organised by Paul Gauguin and Émile Schuffenecker at the Café des Arts in Paris; other exhibitors include Émile Bernard and Charles Laval.
* July 15 – The Scottish National Portrait Gallery opens in Edinburgh in premises designed by Rowand Anderson, the first in the world to be purpose-built as a portrait gallery.
* July 23 – Marie Triepcke marries fellow-artist Peder Severin Krøyer in Augsburg.
* August 17 – The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition opens in Melbourne, Australia.
* Edvard Munch stages his first one-man exhibition and wins a state scholarship to study in Paris.
* Alfred Sisley settles at Moret-sur-Loing.
* The Skulpturensammlung moves into the Albertinum in Dresden.
* The Imperial Museum of Nara is established in Japan.

## Works

* Jean Béraud - La Pâtisserie Gloppe
* Pierre Bonnard – Self-portrait (approx. date)
* William-Adolphe Bouguereau
** Première rêverie
** The Shepherdess
* Antoine Bourdelle – Adam
* Henry Jamyn Brooks – Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
* Milly Childers – Self-portrait Archived 2012-04-25 at the Wayback Machine
* Henry de Groux – Christ aux Outrages
* Thomas Eakins – The Agnew Clinic
* Paul Gustav Fischer – The Royal Theatre Ballet School, Copenhagen
* Stanhope Forbes – The Health of the Bride
* Henry Justice Ford – Illustrations to Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book
* Louis Édouard Fournier – The Funeral of Shelley
* Paul Gauguin
** The Green Christ and The Yellow Christ (Pont-Aven, c. September)
** Portrait of Jacob Meijer de Haan (Le Pouldu, after October 2)
** Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake (Le Pouldu, after October 2)
** The Flageolet Player on the Cliff (Le Pouldu)
* Alfred Gilbert – Marble bust of Queen Victoria
* J. W. Godward
** Grecian Reverie
** His Birthday Gift
** Ianthe
** Waiting For An Answer
* Félix Resurrección Hidalgo – La Parisienne
* Jozef Israëls – A Son of the Ancient Race (several versions)
* Juan Luna – Hymen o Hymenee
* Frederick McCubbin – Down on His Luck
* Arturo Michelena – La Joven Madre ("The Young Mother")
* Claude Monet – The Valley of the Creuse, Sunset
* Edvard Munch
** Inger on the Beach, Summer Night
** Music on Karl Johan Street
** Spring
* Blanche Nevin – Peter Muhlenberg (marble)
* Eilif Peterssen – Salmon Fishermen at Nesøya
* Ilya Repin – Portrait of Baroness Varvara Ivanovna Ikskul von Hildenbandt
* Auguste Rodin – The Burghers of Calais (sculpture)
* John Singer Sargent
** Gabriel Fauré
** Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth
** Lady Fishing - Mrs Ormond
** An Out-of-Doors Study
* Henryk Siemiradzki – Phryne at the Poseidonia in Eleusis
* Arthur Streeton – Golden Summer, Eaglemont
* Franz Stuck – The Guardian of Paradise
* Vincent van Gogh
** Hospital in Arles series
*** Garden of the Hospital in Arles (June)
*** Ward in the Hospital in Arles (October)
*** Portrait of Doctor Félix Rey (January)
** Self-portrait and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (January)
** Self-Portrait as a sick person (Saint-Rémy, August)
** Bedroom in Arles (second and third versions, September)
** View of Arles, Flowering Orchards and View of Arles with Trees in Blossom (Spring)
** Butterflies series (Spring)
** Irises
** Rain (Saint-Rémy, October/November)
** The Ravine of the Peyroulets
** A Road at Saint-Remy with Female Figure
** The Starry Night (Saint-Rémy, June)
** Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy series
*** Trees and Undergrowth series
** Portrait of Trabuc, an Attendant at Saint-Paul Hospital and Portrait of Madame Trabuc (Saint-Rémy, September)
** Two Crabs (c. January)
** Wheat Fields series
*** Wheat Field, Sunrise (Saint-Rémy)
*** Wheat Field with Cypresses (three paintings, Saint-Rémy, July–September)
*** Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves (after Millet)
* Carl von Marr – The Flagellants
* Fritz von Uhde – Heathland princess
* Édouard Vuillard – Self-portrait
* John Quincy Adams Ward – Bust of Alexander Lyman Holley (bronze, New York City)

## Births

* January 19 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss geometric abstract painter, sculptor and dancer (died 1943)
* January 21 – Hermann Glöckner, German Constructivist painter and sculptor (died 1987)
* April 15 – Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and muralist (died 1975)
* May 11 – Paul Nash, English painter (died 1946)
* June 13 – Gao Qifeng, Chinese painter (died 1933)
* July 31 – Júlíana Sveinsdóttir, Icelandic painter and textile artist (died 1966)
* August 13 – C. R. W. Nevinson, English war artist (died 1946)
* August 20 – David Kakabadze, Georgian artist (died 1952)
* September 28 – Seán Keating, Irish romantic-realist painter (died 1977)
* October 10 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter and art forger (died 1947)
* October 17 – Karl Völker, German painter and architect (died 1962)
* October 29 – Edward Wadsworth, English painter (died 1949)
* November 1 – Hannah Höch, German Dada photomontage artist (died 1978)
* November 10 – Clive Stephen, Australian sculptor (died 1957)

## Deaths

* January 23 – Alexandre Cabanel, painter (born 1823)
* February 5 – James Smetham, pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1821)
* February 24 – Philip Henry Delamotte, photographer and illustrator (born 1821)
* May 23 – John O'Connor, painter (born 1830)
* October 6 – Jules Dupré, painter (born 1811)
* December 27 – Eduard Bendemann, painter (born 1811)
* date unknown – Jules Tavernier, French painter (born 1844)