1891 in art

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Events

• Henri Matisse begins his studies at the Académie Julian.
• Correspondence of Marie Bashkirtseff and Gustave Flaubert is published.
• Impressionist Armand Guillaumin wins 100,000 francs in the French state lottery and is able to devote himself to painting full-time.
• Felix Vallotton makes his first woodcuts.

Works

See also: Category:1891 paintings

• Thomas Eakins - 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)
• Georges Seurat - completion of The Circus (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Claude Monet - The Haystack Series
• Tom Roberts - A break away!

Births

• February 13 - Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942)
• April 2 - Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet (d. 1976)
• 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).

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)
• 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)