1913 in art

Events

• February 17 - The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
• May - The Paul Émile Chabas painting September Morn provokes a charge of indency when displayed in the window of a Chicago art gallery.
• May 29 - The ballet The Rite of Spring, with music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Pierre Monteux, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich, is premièred by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, its modernism provoking one of the most famous classical music riots in history.^[1]
• December 12 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, stolen from the Louvre in 1911, is located in Florence.
• The London Group is formed by merger of the Camden Town Group and the Vorticists and holds its first exhibition.
• Target, the first exhibition of Rayonism.
• Maurice Utrillo has his first solo exhibition, at the Galerie Blot in Paris, but attracts little notice at this time.^[2]
• Omega Workshops established in London by Roger Fry and other members of the Bloomsbury Group to produce artist-designed furniture and textiles. Wyndham Lewis and others secede in October.

Works

Paintings

Gaudier-Brzeska Self-portrait

• George Bellows - Cliff Dwellers
• Marc Chagall - Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers
• Giorgio De Chirico
  • The Anxious Journey (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
  • Le Rêve Transformé (Saint Louis Art Museum)
• Salvador Dalí (aged about 9) - Vilabertran
• André Derain - Portrait of a Girl in Black
• Pavel Filonov - The Banquet of Kings
• Henri Gaudier-Brzeska - Self-Portrait
• Ludvig Karsten - The Blue Kitchen
• Laura Knight - Self Portrait with Nude
• Fernand Léger - Contrasting Forms
• Henri Matisse - Open Window, Tangier
• Pablo Picasso - Guitar (Musée Picasso, Paris)

Sculptures

• Karl Bitter - Carl Schurz Monument, New York City
• Umberto Boccioni - Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
• Marcel Duchamp - Bicycle Wheel (readymade)
• Jacob Epstein - The Rock Drill (original form)
• James Earle Fraser - Buffalo nickel (United States coinage)
• Carl Jacobsen - The Little Mermaid
• Pietro Porcelli - The Explorers' Monument, Fremantle, Western Australia
• Lorado Taft - Fountain of the Great Lakes
• Albert Toft - King Edward VII Memorial, Birmingham
• Mahonri Young - Seagull Monument, Salt Lake City

Births

Epstein's Rock Drill in original form on machine base

• February 15 - William Scott, Ulster Scots painter (died 1989)
• March 12 - Max Leognany, French artist (died 1994)
• March 19 - Mary Henry, painter (died 2009)
• March 23 - Abidin Dino, Turkish artist (died 1993)
• May 27 - Wols, painter and draughtsman (died 1951)
• July 12 - Roger Testu, French cartoonist (died 2008)
• July 27 - Philip Guston, Canadian painter and printmaker (died 1980)
• September 1 - Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (died 1979)
• September 25 - Tony O'Malley, Irish painter (died 2003)
• September 28 - Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (died 2007)
• October 22 - Robert Capa, war photographer (died 1954)
• December 13 - Vladimir Tretchikoff, Russian artist (died 2006)
• December 24 - Ad Reinhardt, painter and writer (died 1967)

Full date unknown

• Russell Brockbank, Canadian-born cartoonist (died 1979)
• Mercedes Matter, US painter (died 2001)
• Robert C. Turner, US potter (died 2005)

Deaths

• January 6 - Gyula Juhász, sculptor and engraver (born 1876)
• March 8 - Louis Saint-Gaudens, sculptor (born 1854)
• March 13 - Félix Resurrección Hidalgo, Filipino painter (born 1855)
• April 20 - Vilhelm Bissen, sculptor (born 1836)
• May 10 - Andreas Aubert, Norwegian art historian (born 1851)
• July 10 - Mikoláš Aleš, Czech painter (born 1852)
• August 7 - Fernand Pelez, French painter (born 1843)
• September 28 - Sir Alfred East, painter (born 1844)
• October 5 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (born 1856)
• date unknown
  • George Hitchcock, painter (born 1850)
  • Marc-Louis Solon, ceramic artist (born 1835)

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