# 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
** Head of a Young Woman
** 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 Inuk 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)