Events

• January 1 - Alphonse Mucha's lithographed poster for the play Gismonda starring Sarah Bernhardt is posted in Paris.^[1] Bernhardt is so satisfied with its success that she gives Mucha a six-year contract.
• July 3 - Paul Gauguin leaves France to settle permanently in Polynesia.
• Bernard Berenson publishes Lorenzo Lotto: An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism.
• P. H. Emerson publishes his last photographic book, Marsh Leaves.

Works

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• Paul C zanne - The Boy in the Red Vest
• Thomas Eakins - Portrait of Maud Cook
• Paul Gauguin - Oviri (stoneware)
• Countess Feodora von Gleichen - Statue of Queen Victoria surrounded by children, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
• Sir Frederic Leighton - Flaming June
• Juan Luna
  • La Bulaque a
  • Tampuhan
• Gustave Moreau - Jupiter and Semele
• Edvard Munch
  • Jealousy
  • Madonna
• Tom Roberts - Bailed Up
• Th ophile Steinlen - Les Chanteurs des Rues
• Dorothy Tennant - L'Amour Bless
• James Tissot - La femme pr historique
• John Henry Twachtman - The White Bridge (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
• F lix Vallotton - Clair de lune ("Moonlight")

Births

• January 21 - Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (d. 1972)
• March 1 - Ogura Yuki, nihonga painter (d. 2000)
• March 4 - Mikul Galanda, modernist painter and illustrator (d.1938)
• April 7 - Jim Ede, English art collector (d.1990)
• May 8 - Georg Muche, German painter (d. 1987)
• June 3 - Frank McKelvey, Irish painter (d. 1974)
• June 5 - William Roberts, painter (d. 1980)
• July 2 - Gen Paul, French painter and engraver (d. 1975)
• August 7 - Alain Saint-Ogan, French comics author and artist (d.1974).
• August 17 - Talbert Abrams, "father of aerial photography". (d.1990)
• November 1 - David Jones, British poet and painter (d.1974).

Deaths

• January 5 - W adys aw Podkowi ski, painter and illustrator (b. 1866)
• February 1 - Mary Thornycroft, sculptor (b. 1814)
• February 8 - Jean-Fran ois Portaels, painter (b. 1818)
• March 2 - Berthe Morisot, Impressionist painter (b. 1841)
• March 6 - Edwin Forbes, landscape painter and etcher (b. 1839)
• April 19 - Sir George Scharf, art critic (b. 1820)
• April 21 - Arthur Gilbert, painter (b. 1819)
• May 24 - Joseph Quinaux, landscape painter (b. 1822)
• September 21 - Silvestro Lega, painter (b. 1826)
• November 23 - Mauritz de Haas, painter (b. 1832)
• date unknown - Gaetano Milanesi, art historian (b. 1813)

References

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