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Overview of the events of 1911 in art
Overview of the events of 1911 in art
The year 1911 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Vacant wall in the Salon Carré, Louvre after theft of the Mona Lisa
Events
Exhibitions
April 21 –June 13 – Salon des Indépendants ; Jean Metzinger , Albert Gleizes , Henri Le Fauconnier , Robert Delaunay , Fernand Léger , Joseph Csaky and Roger de La Fresnaye are shown together in Room 41, provoking an 'involuntary scandal' out of which Cubism emerges and spreads in Paris. The term "Cubism" is first used in English.May 11 – A Futurist exhibition in Milan is the first of efforts by the group to make its theories concrete.May 20 –July 2 – Second International Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf (Kunsthalle), organised by Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler October 1 –November 8 – Salon d'Automne ; At this exhibition, Jean Metzinger , Albert Gleizes , Henri Le Fauconnier , Fernand Léger , František Kupka , André Lhote , Roger de La Fresnaye , Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp , Alexander Archipenko , Joseph Csaky exhibit Cubist works; and André Mare designs the decorative arts section.One-man show by Eugeniusz Żak at Galerie Druet .
Works
Henri Matisse - L'Atelier Rouge Jean Metzinger - Le goûter (Tea Time) Philadelphia Museum of Art . Exhibited at the 1911 Salon d'Automne ; André Salmon dubs it "The Mona Lisa of Cubism"
Births
January 2 – Alexander Džigurski , Serbian seascape artist (d. 1995 ).January 17 – Izis Bidermanas , Lithuanian -born photographer (d. 1980 ).February 10 – Mallica Reynolds ("Kapo"), Jamaican painter, sculptor and religious leader (d. 1989 ).March 4 – Ilona Harima , Finnish painter (d. 1986 ).March 7 – Edmund Teske , American photographer (d. 1996 ).March 17 – David Park , American painter (d. 1960 ).March 23 – Roger Hilton , English painter (d. 1975 ).May 14 – Carl Abrahams , Jamaican painter (d. 2005 ).May 25 – Will Barnet , American painter, printmaker (d. 2012 ).June 11 – Coby Whitmore , American painter and illustrator (d. 1988 )July 15 – Juliet Pannett , English portrait artist (d. 2005).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 16 – Brett Weston , American photographer (d. 1993 ).December 25 – Louise Bourgeois , French -born painter and sculptor (d. 2010 ).
Deaths
January 4 – Stefano Bruzzi , Italian painter (b. 1835 )January 19 – Valentin Serov , Russian painter (b. 1865 )January 28 – John MacWhirter , Scottish-born landscape painter (b. 1837 )February 22 – Carl Fredrik Hill , Swedish painter (b. 1849 )April 6 – Carl von Perbandt , German landscape painter (b. 1832 )April 13 – William Keith , Scottish American landscape painter (b. 1838 )April 19 – Ivan Grohar , Slovenian Impressionist painter (b. 1867 )May 5 – Halsey Ives , American art teacher and curator (b. 1847 )May 8 – Alphonse Legros , French-born painter and etcher (b. 1837 )August 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey , American-born painter and illustrator (b. 1852 )August 12 – Jozef Israëls , Dutch painter (b. 1824 )September 16 – Hishida Shunsō , Japanese painter (b. 1874 )October 15 – Ellen Thayer Fisher , American botanical painter (b. 1847 )November 10 – Félix Ziem , French painter (b. 1821 )
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