1906 in art
Events
Fritz Bleyl poster for the first Die Brücke show
- September–October – First group exhibition by Die Brücke, in Dresden.
- Gwen John begins modelling for Auguste Rodin.
- Hilma af Klint begins painting abstract art, including the first of her Primordial Chaos series.
- Paula Modersohn-Becker begins a series of nude portraits of herself and of other women and children in Paris.
- Juan Gris, Amedeo Modigliani and Gino Severini all arrive in Paris.
- Walter Sickert paints music hall scenes in London and Paris.
- Ferdinand Preiss opens his workshop in Berlin.
- Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) completed.
Works
- Umberto Boccioni – Self-portrait
- Antoine Bourdelle – The Fruit (sculpture)
- Paul Cézanne – The Gardener Vallier
- Robert Delaunay – L'homme à la tulipe (Portrait de Jean Metzinger)
- André Derain
- Charing Cross Bridge, London
- The Pool of London
- Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter – Progress of the State (quadriga)
- J. W. Godward
- Drusilla
- Nerissa
- The Tambourine Girl (two versions)
- Wilhelm Hammershoi – Interior
- Ishibashi Kazunori – Lady Reading Poetry
- Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson – The Hiker (statue)
- Peder Severin Krøyer – Midsummer Eve Bonfire on Skagen Beach
- Henri Matisse
- Le bonheur de vivre
- Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt
- The Young Sailor I
- The Young Sailor II
- Willard Metcalf – May Night
- Jean Metzinger
- Coucher de soleil no. 1
- Femme au Chapeau
- La danse (Bacchante)
- Portrait de Robert Delaunay
- Paula Modersohn-Becker – Self-portrait
- Claude Monet – Water Lilies
- Edvard Munch
- Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche
- Self-portrait with a bottle
- Mikhail Nesterov
- Portrait of E. P. Nesterov
- Portrait of Olga Nesterova (Woman in a Riding Habit)
- Maxfield Parrish – Old King Cole and his Fiddlers Three (mural at St. Regis Hotel, New York City)
- Pablo Picasso
- Boy Leading a Horse
- Portrait of Gertrude Stein
- Self-Portrait with Palette
- Niko Pirosmani – Feast with Organ-Grinder Datiko Zemel
- Medardo Rosso – Ecce Puer (sculpted bust)
- John Singer Sargent – Self-portrait
- Zinaida Serebriakova – Country Girl
- Walter Sickert – La Hollandaise
- Franz von Stuck – Salome
- Albert Chevallier Tayler – Kent vs Lancashire at Canterbury
- Douglas Tilden – California Volunteers (sculpture, San Francisco)
- Ville Vallgren – Havis Amanda (bronze)
Births
January to June
- January 3 – Óscar Domínguez, Spanish surrealist painter (died 1957)
- January 9 – Janko Brašić, Serbian painter (died 1994)
- January 13 – Burgoyne Diller, American abstract painter (died 1965)
- February 28 – Percy Shakespeare, English painter (died 1943)
- March 2 – Jessie Oonark, Canadian Inuit artist (died 1985)
- March 8 – Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (died 1978)
- March 9 – David Smith, American abstract expressionist sculptor (died 1965)
- March 26 – Henri Cadiou, French realist painter and lithographer (died 1989)
- March 27 – Bernard Lefebvre, French photographer (died 1992)
- April 11 – Dale Messick, first woman syndicated comic strip artist in the United States (died 2005)
- April 14 – Elmyr de Hory, Hungarian-born painter and art forger (d. 1976)
- April 21 – Lillian Browse, English art dealer and historian (died 2005)
- May 16 – Alfred Pellan, Canadian artist (died 1988)
- May 2 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American portrait photographer (died 1979)
- May 20 – Leon Polk Smith, American painter (died 1996)
- June 9 – James Boswell, New Zealand painter and draughtsman (died 1971)
July to December
- July 8 – Philip Johnson, American architect, art collector, curator (died 2005)
- August 12 – Tedd Pierce, American animated cartoon writer, animator and artist (died 1972)
- August 14 – Horst P. Horst, German American photographer (died 1999)
- August 20 – Heinz Henghes, German sculptor (died 1975)
- August 21 – Friz Freleng, American animator, cartoonist, director and producer (died 1995)
- September 5 – Ralston Crawford, American painter, lithographer and photographer (died 1978)
- October 18 – James Brooks, American painter and muralist (died 1992)
- October 24 – Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (died 1996)
- October 27 – Peter Blume, American painter (died 1992)
- November 26 – Krystyna Dąbrowska, Polish sculptor and painter (died 1944)
- December 10 – Padraig Marrinan, Irish painter (died 1975)
- December 14 – Maxwell Bates, Canadian architect and expressionist painter (died 1980)
- December 27 – Andreas Feininger, French-born American photographer (died 1999)
Deaths
- January 20 – Philippe Solari, French sculptor (born 1840)
- February – Charles-Auguste Lebourg, French sculptor (born 1829)
- February 14 – Carl Eneas Sjöstrand, Swedish sculptor (born 1828)
- March 5 – Hugh Ramsay, Australian painter (born 1877)
- March 17 – Thomas Dalziel, English engraver (born 1823)
- March 27 – Eugène Carrière, French Symbolist painter (born 1849)
- March 19 – Étienne Carjat, French portraitist (born 1828)
- March 29 – Slava Raskaj, Croatian watercolour painter (born 1877)
- April 5 – Wyke Bayliss, English painter (born 1835)
- April 14 – Walter Williams, English landscape painter (born 1834)
- April 19 – Daniel Huntington, American painter (born 1816)
- May – John Mulvany, Irish-born American painter (b. circa 1839)
- June 20 – John Clayton Adams, English landscape artist (born 1840)
- August 21 – Eugen Felix, Austrian painter (born 1836)
- August 29 – Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter (born 1828)
- October 2 – Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter (born 1848)
- October 22 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (born 1839)
- November 5 – Frits Thaulow, Norwegian Impressionist painter (born 1847)
- December 11 – Axel Lindahl, Swedish landscape photographer (born 1841)
- November 20 – Charles Eastlake, English architect and furniture designer (born 1836)
- December 31 – Julia Goodman, English portrait painter (born 1812)
- date unknown
- Antonio Beato, Italian-born photographer (born c.1825)
- Charles Edwin Fripp, English-born war artist (born 1854)
- Maeda Genzō, Japanese photographer (born 1831)
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