1913 in art

Events

• January 16 – Ilya Repin's painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, is slashed.
• January 19 – Lovis Corinth's retrospective opens at the Munich Secession galleries. This year the "New Munich Secession" splits from the Munich Secession.
• End of January – Franz Marc's Collection II opens at the Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser in Munich. This is followed at the gallery in February by the first major retrospective of Picasso's work.
• February–March – English painter Olive Hockin is implicated in suffragette attacks.
• 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.
• March 10 – French sculptor Camille Claudel is committed by her family to a psychiatric hospital where she will remain until her death in 1943.
• April – Marcel Duchamp withdraws from painting and begins working as a library assistant in the Sainte-Geneviève Library in Paris to be able to earn a living wage while concentrating on scholarship and working on his The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.
• May – The Paul Émile Chabas painting September Morn provokes a charge of indency when displayed in the window of a Chicago art gallery.
• May 27 – Die Brücke dissolved.
• 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. The audience includes Gabriele D'Annunzio, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Harry Graf Kessler and Maurice Ravel.
• August-September – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner spends the summer painting on the island of Fehmarn; returning to Berlin he begins his series of street scenes from around the Potsdamer Platz.
• September 19 – First German Autumn Salon opens in Berlin, featuring 366 paintings by 90 artists from 12 countries, notably Franz Marc; Guillaume Apollinaire and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti deliver accompanying lectures.
• Autumn – The Neue Galerie in Berlin reopens with displays of the work of Picasso and others associated with French Modernism.
• October – August Macke paints at Hilterfingen.
• October 18 – Monument to the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, designed by Bruno Schmitz incorporating sculptures by Christian Behrens and Franz Metzner, is inaugurated.
• December 12 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, stolen from the Louvre in 1911, is located in Florence when Vincenzo Peruggia attempts to sell it. It is returned to Paris on December 30.
• Generación del 13 established in Chile.
• The London Group is formed by merger of the Camden Town Group and the Vorticists; it will hold its first exhibition in March 1914.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.
• 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.
• First observation of a chimpanzee drawing.
• English connoisseur Hugh Blaker discovers and acquires the "Isleworth Mona Lisa".
• Guillaume Apollinaire's The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations is published in Paris.
• The Russian Futurist opera Victory Over the Sun by Mikhail Matyushin and Aleksei Kruchyonykh with stage design by Kazimir Malevich premieres in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is for this opus that Malevich creates his first Black Square as part of his stage design. Some consider this the beginning of Malevich's Suprematist period

Works

Graphic works

• Anna Ancher – Fru Ane Brøndum i den blå stue
• Max Beckmann – Sinking of the Titanic
• Vanessa Bell
• * Design for Overmantel Mural
• * Street Corner Conversation
• * Summer Camp
• George Bellows
• * Cliff Dwellers
• * Evening Blue
• Umberto Boccioni
• * Dynamism of a Cyclist
• * Dynamism of a Man's Head
• * Dynamism of a Soccer Player
• Pierre Bonnard – Dining Room in the Country
• Marc Chagall – Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers
• Giorgio de Chirico
• * '
• * Ariadne
• * The Soothsayer's Recompense
• * The Transformed Dream
• Charles F. Church - The Dangerous Servants - Evils of Coffee, Alcohol and Tobacco
• Salvador Dalí – Vilabertran
• Robert Delaunay
• * Cardiff Team
• * Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon
• Charles Demuth – Mountain with Red House
• André Derain – Portrait of a Girl in Black
• Pavel Filonov – The Banquet of Kings
• Henri Gaudier-Brzeska – Self-portrait
• Albert Gleizes
• * Football Players
• * Man in a Hammock
• * The Publisher Eugène Figuière
• J. W. Godward
• * The Belvedere
• * Le Billet Doux
• * Golden Hours
• * In the Tepidarium
• * La Pensierosa
• Natalia Goncharova – Cyclist
• Juan Gris
• * Still Life with a Guitar
• * Violin and Playing Cards on a Table
• Childe Hassam – Surf, Isles of Shoals
• Erich Heckel – '
• Albert Herter – The Pageant of Nations
• James Dickson Innes – '
• Wassily Kandinsky
• * Composition VI
• * Composition VII
• * Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons)
• * Landscape with Red Spots
• Ludvig Karsten – The Blue Kitchen
• Roger de La Fresnaye
• *Married Life
• *The Conquest of the Air
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
• * Berlin Street Scene
• * Portrait of Erna Schilling
• * Street, Berlin
• Gustav Klimt – The Maiden
• Laura Knight – Self Portrait with Nude
• Oskar Kokoschka – '
• František Kupka – The Cathedral (Katedrála)
• Jacques Henri Lartigue –
• Fernand Léger – Contrasting Forms
• August Macke
• * Lady in a Green Jacket
• * People at the Blue Lake
• * Promenade
• * Sunlight Walk
• * Tightrope walker
• * Two Girls
• Kazimir Malevich
• * Bureau and Room
• * Cow and Fiddle
• * Head of a Peasant Girl
• * The Knife Grinder
• * Portrait of Mikhail Matyushin
• Franz Marc
• * The Bewitched Mill
• * Birth of the Wolves
• * Deer in the Forest I
• * Fate of the Animals
• * The Foxes
• * The Tower of Blue Horses
• * The Wolves
• Henri Matisse
• * Arab Coffeehouse
• * The Blue Window
• Sidney Meteyard –
• Jean Metzinger
• * En Canot (Im Boot)
• * Man with Pipe
• * Woman with a fan (1913)
• Edvard Munch – Morning Yawn
• C. R. W. Nevinson – The Arrival
• Franz Nölken – Max Reger
• Francis Picabia – Udnie
• Pablo Picasso
• * Guitar
• * Harlequin (1913)
• Iso Rae – Rogation Sunday
• John Singer Sargent – Portrait of Henry James
• Egon Schiele – Dämmernde Stadt
• Charles Sims – The Wood beyond the World
• Vardges Sureniants – Ferdowsi reading Shahnameh to Shah Mahmud Ghaznavi
• Albert Chevallier Tayler – The Quiet Hour
• Harry Watrous - ''The Drop Sinister, What Shall We Do with It?''

Sculptures

• Karl Bitter – Carl Schurz Monument, New York City
• Umberto Boccioni
• * Development of a Bottle in Space
• * Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
• Joseph Csaky –
• Marcel Duchamp – Bicycle Wheel
• Jacob Epstein – The Rock Drill
• Four Southern Poets Monument, Augusta, Georgia
• James Earle Fraser – Buffalo nickel
• Carl Jacobsen – The Little Mermaid
• Wilhelm Lehmbruck
• * Emporsteigender Jüngling
• * Große Sinnende
• Pietro Porcelli – Explorers' Monument, Fremantle, Western Australia
• Lorado Taft – Fountain of the Great Lakes
• Albert Toft – King Edward VII Memorial, Birmingham
• Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – Enduring Ornament
• Mahonri Young – Seagull Monument, Salt Lake City

Births

• January 29 – Reuben Kadish, American artist and educator
• January 30 – Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Indian painter
• February 15 – William Scott, Ulster Scots painter
• March 8 – Peter Wilson, English art auctioneer
• March 12 – Max Leognany, French artist
• March 19 – Mary Henry, American painter
• March 23 – Abidin Dino, Turkish artist
• March 29 – Hyman Bloom, Latvian American painter
• April 21 – Norman Parkinson, English fashion photographer
• May 6 – Marianne Appel, American mural painter and puppet designer
• May 7 - Mary Spencer Watson, English sculptor
• May 27 – Wols, born Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, German-born painter and draughtsman
• July 12 – Roger Testu, French cartoonist
• July 22 – Robert C. Turner, American potter
• July 27 – Philip Guston, Canadian-born American Abstract Expressionist painter and printmaker
• August 10 – Lajos Tscheligi, Hungarian painter
• September 1 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist
• September 25 – Tony O'Malley, Irish painter
• September 28 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator
• October 22 – Robert Capa, born Endre Friedmann, Hungarian-born war photographer
• November 21 – Tomie Ohtake, Japanese-Brazilian artist
• December 13 – Vladimir Tretchikoff, Russian artist
• December 24 – Ad Reinhardt, American painter and writer Full date unknown
• * Russell Brockbank, Canadian-born cartoonist
• * Mercedes Matter, born Mercedes Carles, American painter

Deaths

• January 6 – Gyula Juhász, Hungarian sculptor and engraver
• March 8 – Louis Saint-Gaudens, American sculptor
• March 13 – Félix Resurrección Hidalgo, Filipino painter
• April 20 – Vilhelm Bissen, Danish sculptor
• May 10 – Andreas Aubert, Norwegian art historian
• June 23 - Marc-Louis Solon, French-born ceramic artist
• July 10 – Mikoláš Aleš, Czech painter
• August 2 - George Hitchcock, American painter
• August 7 – Fernand Pelez, French painter
• September 28 – Sir Alfred East, English painter
• October 5 – Hans von Bartels, German painter Full date unknown – Caroline Shawk Brooks, American sculptor