1895 in art

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.
• April 13 - The Russian Museum is established in Saint Petersburg by Nicholas II.
• April 30 - First Venice Biennale opens.^[2]
• July 3 - Paul Gauguin leaves France to settle permanently in Polynesia.
• October - Edvard Munch exhibits an extended series of his Love paintings in Christiania.
• Bernard Berenson publishes Lorenzo Lotto: An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism.
• P. H. Emerson publishes his last photographic book, Marsh Leaves.
• M. H. de Young Memorial Museum opened in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

Works

Flaming June (Leighton)

• Aubrey Beardsley - Venus Between Terminal Gods (ink drawing)
• Paul Cézanne
  • The Boy in the Red Vest
  • Still Life with Cherub (approximate date)
• Edgar Degas - Photographic self-portrait
• 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
• J. W. Godward
  • Mischief And Repose
  • The Muse Erato At Her Lyre
• Sir Frederic Leighton - Flaming June
• Juan Luna
  • La Bulaqueña
  • Tampuhan
• Gustave Moreau - Jupiter and Semele
• Edvard Munch
  • After the Fall of Man (Ashes)
  • Jealousy
  • Madonna
  • Self-portrait with a cigarette
  • Self-portrait with skeleton arm (lithograph)
• Roderic O'Conor - La Jeune Bretonne
• Tom Roberts - Bailed Up
• Carlos Schwabe - La mort du fossoyeur ("The Death of the Gravedigger")
• Marianne Stokes - St. Elizabeth of Hungary Spinning for the Poor
• Théophile Steinlen - Les Chanteurs des Rues
• Vardges Sureniants - Desecrated Shrine
• Dorothy Tennant - L'Amour Blessé
• James Tissot - La femme préhistorique
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Portrait of Oscar Wilde^[3]
• Laurits Tuxen - The Wedding of Tsar Nicholas II
• John Henry Twachtman - The White Bridge (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
• Félix Vallotton - Clair de lune ("Moonlight")
• W. L. Wyllie - The Opening of Tower Bridge

Births

• January 21 - Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (died 1972)
• March 1 - Ogura Yuki, nihonga painter (died 2000)
• March 4 - Mikuláš Galanda, modernist painter and illustrator (died 1938)
• April 7 - Jim Ede, English art collector (died 1990)
• May 8 - Georg Muche, German painter (died 1987)
• June 3 - Frank McKelvey, Irish painter (died 1974)
• June 5 - William Roberts, painter (died 1980)
• July 2 - Gen Paul, French painter and engraver (died 1975)
• August 7 - Alain Saint-Ogan, French comics author and artist (died 1974).
• August 17 - Talbert Abrams, "father of aerial photography". (died 1990)
• November 1 - David Jones, British poet and painter (died 1974).
• December 26 - Jefto Perić, Serbian painter (died 1967).
• date unknown
  • Ilija Bašičević, Serbian painter and father of painter-sculptor Dimitrije Bašičević (died 1972).

Deaths

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

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