1911 in art

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Events

• February 2 – First issue of Franz Pfemfert's Die Aktion
• May 11 – A Futurist exhibition in Milan is the first of efforts by the group to make its theories concrete
• August 21 – Mona Lisa stolen from the Musée du Louvre
• Creation of Der Blaue Reiter Group (first exhibition opens December 18 in Munich)
• Creation of the Puteaux Group
• Creation of the Camden Town Group

Exhibitions

• One-man show by Eugeniusz Żak at Galerie Druet

Works

See also: Category:1911 paintings

• Umberto Boccioni - The Street Enters the House
• Carlo Carrà - The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli
• Marc Chagall - I and the Village
• Giorgio de Chirico - The Nostalgia of the Infinite
• Robert Delaunay - Eiffel Tower
• Lydia Field Emmet - Olivia
• Jacob Epstein - Oscar Wilde Memorial
• Alfons Karpiński - The Parisian Street
• Henri Matisse - L'Atelier Rouge
• Piet Mondrian - Gray Tree
• Emil Nolde - Maskenstilleben ("Masks Still Life")
• Pablo Picasso - The Accordionist

Births

• March 17 - David Park, American painter (d. 1960)
• May 14 - Carl Abrahams, Jamaican painter (d.2005)
• May 25 - Will Barnet, American painter, printmaker
• August 10 - Bruce Ariss, American artist (d.1994).
• September 2 - Romare Bearden, American painter, printmaker (d.1988).
• October 9 - Joe Rosenthal, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (d.2006).
• November 11 - Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (d.2002).
• November 25 - Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (d.1984).
• December 25 - Louise Bourgeois, French painter and sculptor.

Deaths

• January 19 - Valentin Serov, Russian painter (b. 1865)
• February 22 - Carl Fredrik Hill, Swedish painter (b. 1849)
• April 13 - William Keith, landscape painter (b. 1838)
• April 19 - Ivan Grohar, Slovenian Impressionist painter (b. 1867)
• May 5 - Halsey Ives, art teacher and curator (b. 1847)
• May 8 - Alphonse Legros, painter and etcher (b. 1837)
• August 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (b. 1852)
• August 12 - Jozef Israëls, painter (b. 1824)
• September 16 - Hishida Shunsō, Japanese painter (b. 1874)
• November 10 – Félix Ziem, French painter (b. 1821)

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