1906 in art

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Events

• Gwen John begins modelling for Auguste Rodin.
• Amedeo Modigliani arrives in Paris.
• Ferdinand Preiss opens his workshop in Berlin.

Works

André Derain, Charing Cross Bridge, London (1906), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

See also: Category:1906 sculptures

• Antoine Bourdelle - The Fruit (sculpture)
• Paul Cézanne - The Gardener Vallier
• André Derain - Charing Cross Bridge, London
• Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter - Progress of the State (quadriga)
• Wilhelm Hammershoi - Interior
• Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson - The Hiker (statue)
• Henri Matisse
  • Le bonheur de vivre
  • Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt
  • The Young Sailor II
• Willard Metcalf - May Night
• Paula Modersohn-Becker - Self-portrait
• Claude Monet - Water Lilies
• Pablo Picasso
  • Boy Leading a Horse
  • Portrait of Gertrude Stein
  • Self-Portrait with Palette
• Niko Pirosmani - Feast with Organ-Grinder Datiko Zemel
• Walter Sickert - La Hollandaise
• Ville Vallgren - Havis Amanda (bronze)

Births

January to June

• January 3 - Óscar Domínguez, painter (d.1957)
• January 13 - Burgoyne Diller, painter (d.1965)
• March 8 - Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (d.1978).
• March 9 - David Smith, sculptor (d.1965).
• March 26 - Henri Cadiou, French realist painter and lithographer (d.1989)
• April 11 - Dale Messick, first woman syndicated comic strip artist in the United States (d.2005)
• May 16 - Alfred Pellan, Canadian artist
• May 20 - Leon Polk Smith, painter (d.1996)

July to December

• 8 July - Philip Johnson, architect, art collector, curator (d. 2005).
• 12 August - Tedd Pierce, American animated cartoon writer, animator and artist (d.1972).
• 14 August - Horst P. Horst, German American photographer (d.1999).
• 20 August - Heinz Henghes, German sculptor (d.1975).
• 21 August - Friz Freleng, American animator, cartoonist, director and producer (d.1995).
• 5 September - Ralston Crawford, painter, lithographer and photographer (d.1978).
• 18 October - James Brooks, painter and muralist (d.1992).
• 24 October - Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (d.1996).
• 27 October - Peter Blume, painter (d.1992).
• 10 December - Padraig Marrinan, Irish painter (d.1975).
• 14 December - Maxwell Bates, Canadian architect and expressionist painter (d.1980).
• 27 December - Andreas Feininger, French-born American photographer (d.1999).

Full date unknown

• Bernard Lefebvre, French photographer (d.1992).

Deaths

• January 20 - Philippe Solari, sculptor (b. 1840)
• February 14 - Carl Eneas Sjöstrand, sculptor (b. 1828)
• March 29 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1877)
• April 5 - Wyke Bayliss, painter (b. 1835)
• August 29 - Alfred Stevens, painter (b. 1828)
• October 22 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
• November 5 - Frits Thaulow, Impressionist painter (b. 1847)
• December 31 - Julia Goodman, portrait painter (b. 1812)
• date unknown
  • Antonio Beato, photographer (b. c. 1825)
  • Thomas Dalziel, engraver (b. 1823)
  • Charles Eastlake, architect and furniture designer (b. 1836)