1891 in art
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[edit] Events
- Henri Matisse begins his studies at the Académie Julian.
- Correspondence of Marie Bashkirtseff and Gustave Flaubert is published.
- Paul Gaugin sails to French Polynesia.
- Impressionist Armand Guillaumin wins 100,000 francs in the French state lottery and is able to devote himself to painting full-time.
- Sidney Paget produces his first illustrations for Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand Magazine.
- Felix Vallotton makes his first woodcuts.
[edit] Works
See also: Category:1891 sculptures
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau - The Goose Girl
- Frank Bramley - For Of Such Is The Kingdom Of Heaven
- Edward Burne-Jones - Sponsa de Libano
- Édouard Detaille - Vive L'Empereur: charge du quatrième hussards à la bataille de Friedland, 14 juin 1807
- Thomas Eakins - Miss Amelia Van Buren (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)
- James Ensor - Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels)
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela - Aino Triptych (second version)
- Paul Gauguin - Tahitian Women on the Beach
- Jan Matejko - Constitution of May 3, 1791
- Claude Monet
- The Haystack Series
- The Poplar Series
- Henrietta Rae - Miss Nightingale at Scutari (1854)
- Ilya Repin - Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
- Tom Roberts - A break away!
- Henri Rousseau - Tiger in a Tropical Storm
- Georges Seurat - completion of The Circus (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- John William Waterhouse - Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses
[edit] Births
- February 13 - Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942)
- April 2 - Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet (d. 1976)
- April 7 - David Low, New Zealand-born editorial cartoonist (d. 1963)
- June 8 - Audrey Munson, American actress and artist's model (d. 1996).
- August 25 - Alberto Savinio, Italian writer, painter and composer (d. 1952).
- October 11 - George Ault, painter (d. 1948).
- December 2 - Otto Dix, painter and graphic artist (d. 1969).
- December 9 - Mark Gertler, painter (d. 1939).
- date unknown - Franz Sedlacek, Austrian painter (d. 1945).
[edit] Deaths
- January 27 - Jervis McEntee, painter of the Hudson River School (b. 1828)
- January 30 - Charles Joshua Chaplin, painter and engraver (b. 1825)
- January 31 - Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, French classicist painter (b. 1815)
- February 9 - Johan Jongkind, painter (b. 1819)
- March 29 - Georges-Pierre Seurat, Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1859)
- May 12 - Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, Pre-Raphaelite watercolorist (b. 1818)
- September 5 - Elie Delaunay, painter (b. 1828)
- September 9 - William Theed, sculptor (b. 1804)
- September 11 - Théodule Ribot, realist painter (b. 1823)
- October 30 - Truman Seymour, American soldier and painter (b. 1824)
