# 1923 in art

Events from the year 1923 in art.

## Events

* March 20 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States show, Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso.
* May 8 – Göteborgs Konsthall opens as the art gallery for the Gothenburg Exhibition.
* Publication of The Art Spirit by Robert Henri.
* English industrialist and collector Samuel Courtauld acquires the first painting by Paul Cézanne to be purchased for a British collection, Still life with Plaster Cupid (c.1894).
* Chaïm Soutine sells sixty of his paintings from a Paris showing to the American art collector Albert C. Barnes and begins his series of paintings of beef carcasses.
* A joint exhibition with his mother, Suzanne Valadon, at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris brings the paintings of Maurice Utrillo to prominence.
* East London Group forms as an amateur art club in the East End of London.
* Freer Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C. as the first Smithsonian museum dedicated to the fine arts.
* Remington Art Memorial established in Ogdensburg, New York.
* Harwood Museum of Art established in Taos, New Mexico.
* Beaux Arts Gallery established in London by Frederick and Helen Lessore.

## Awards

* Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Portrait of a Lady

## Works

* Max Beckmann – Dance in Baden-Baden
* Pierre Bonnard - La Cote D'azur
* Constantin Brâncuși – Bird in Space (sculpture; first version)
* Felice Casorati – Meriggio (Noon)
* Tamara de Lempicka – Les Deux amies
* Robert Delaunay – Portrait of Tristan Tzara
* Marcel Duchamp – The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) (completed)
* Max Ernst – Pietà or Revolution by Night
* M. C. Escher – Dolphins (woodcut)
* George Grosz – Ecce Homo (portfolio of lithographs)
* Auguste Herbin – Bowls Players
* Marguerite Huré – Stained glass windows at Église Notre-Dame du Raincy
* Wassily Kandinsky – On White II
* Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – The Sleigh Ride
* Sir John Lavery – The Red Rose
* Sir Bertram Mackennal
** Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun (Australia House, London)
** Mother Courage (war memorial, Caledonian Club, London)
** Here I Am, male nude for Eton College War Memorial (now National Gallery of Victoria, Australia)
* Henri Matisse
** Odalisque with Raised Arms
** Window at Tangier
* Mikhail Nesterov – Girl by the Pool
* William Orpen – To the Unknown British Soldier in France (first finished state)
* Pablo Picasso
** The Pipes of Pan
** Paulo on a Donkey
* Man Ray – Object to Be Destroyed (first version - destroyed 1957)
* Gerrit Rietveld – Red and Blue Chair (colours added in De Stijl style at about this date)
* Stanley Royle – Sheffield from Wincobank Wood
* John Singer Sargent – Sir Philip Sassoon
* Stanley Spencer – The Betrayal
* Lorado Taft – The Recording Angel (sculpture, Waupun, Wisconsin)
* Suzanne Valadon – Blue Room
* World War I Memorial (Berwick, Pennsylvania)
* Yokoyama Taikan – Metempsychosis (生々流転, Seisei ruten, "The Wheel of Life", Nihonga scroll painting)

## Births

* January 16 – Keith Shackleton, English painter and television host (d. 2015)
* February 10 – Shirley Jaffe, American-born abstract painter and sculptor (d. 2016)
* March 9 – André Courrèges, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
* April 8 – George Fisher, American political cartoonist (d. 2003)
* April 24 – Cordelia Oliver, Scottish journalist, painter and art critic (d. 2009)
* May 3 – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (d. 2004)
* May 15 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)
* May 22 – Max Velthuijs, Dutch painter, illustrator and author (d. 2005)
* May 27 – Inge Morath, Austrian photographer (d. 2002)
* May 31 – Ellsworth Kelly, American artist (d. 2015)
* June 3 – June Newton, Australian-born photographer (d. 2021)
* June 24 – Marc Riboud, French photographer (d. 2016)
* July 12 – Paul Jenkins, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2012)
* June 25 – Sam Francis, American painter and printmaker (d. 1994)
* September 13 – Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999)
* September 23 – Osuitok Ipeelee, Canadian Inuk sculptor (d. 2005)
* October 7 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2002)
* October 27 – Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist (d. 1997)
* October 28 – David Aronson, Lithuanian American painter (d. 2015)
* November 15 – Miriam Schapiro, Canadian American feminist artist (d. 2015)
* December 1 – Morris, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2001)
* December 13 – Antoni Tàpies, Spanish painter (d. 2012)
* date unknown – François Ozenda, French painter (d. 1976)

## Deaths

* January 12 – Marc Ferrez, Brazilian photographer (b. 1843)
* January 31 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish modernist painter, art critic and assassin (b. 1869)
* March 22 – Benjamin Williams Leader, English landscape painter (b. 1831)
* April 15 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (b. 1843)
* April 17 – Jan Kotěra, Czech artist, architect and designer (b. 1871)
* May 29 – Adolf Oberländer, German caricaturist (b. 1845)
* June 15 – Joseph B. Davol, American marine painter (b. 1864)
* June 21 – Edward Clark Potter, American sculptor (b. 1857)
* July 23 – Willy Gretor, Danish-born painter and art dealer (b. 1868)
* August 2/3 – Jacoba van Heemskerck, Dutch painter and graphic artist (b. 1876)
* August 5 – Candace Wheeler, American designer (b. 1827)
* October 2 – John Wilson Bengough, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1851)
* October 19 – Eleanor Norcross, American painter (b. 1854)
* November 2 – Stevan Aleksić, Serbian painter (b. 1876)
* November 27 – Penleigh Boyd, Australian landscape painter (b. 1890)
* December 13 – Théophile Steinlen, Swiss/French painter (b. 1859)
* date unknown – Edwin Romanzo Elmer, American painter (b. 1850)