1923 in art

Events

• March 20 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States show, Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso.
• May 8 – Göteborgs Konsthall opens as the art gallery for the Gothenburg Exhibition.
• Publication of The Art Spirit by Robert Henri.
• English industrialist and collector Samuel Courtauld acquires the first painting by Paul Cézanne to be purchased for a British collection, Still life with Plaster Cupid.
• Chaïm Soutine sells sixty of his paintings from a Paris showing to the American art collector Albert C. Barnes and begins his series of paintings of beef carcasses.
• A joint exhibition with his mother, Suzanne Valadon, at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris brings the paintings of Maurice Utrillo to prominence.
• East London Group forms as an amateur art club in the East End of London.
• Freer Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C. as the first Smithsonian museum dedicated to the fine arts.
• Remington Art Memorial established in Ogdensburg, New York.
• Harwood Museum of Art established in Taos, New Mexico.
• Beaux Arts Gallery established in London by Frederick and Helen Lessore.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – ''Portrait of a Lady''

Works

• Max Beckmann – Dance in Baden-Baden
• George Bellows – Dempsey and Firpo
• Pierre Bonnard - La Cote D'azur
• Constantin Brâncuși – Bird in Space
• Felice Casorati – Meriggio
• Tamara de Lempicka – Les Deux amies
• Robert Delaunay – Portrait of Tristan Tzara
• Marcel Duchamp – The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)
• Max Ernst – Pietà or Revolution by Night
• M. C. Escher – Dolphins
• George Grosz – Ecce Homo
• Auguste Herbin – Bowls Players
• Marguerite Huré – Stained glass windows at Église Notre-Dame du Raincy
• Wassily Kandinsky – On White II
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – The Sleigh Ride
• Sir John Lavery – The Red Rose
• Sir Bertram Mackennal
• * Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun
• * Mother Courage
• * Here I Am, male nude for Eton College War Memorial
• Henri Matisse – Odalisque with Raised Arms
• Mikhail Nesterov – Girl by the Pool
• William Orpen – To the Unknown British Soldier in France
• Pablo Picasso
• * The Pipes of Pan
• * Paulo on a Donkey
• Man Ray – Object to Be Destroyed
• Gerrit Rietveld – Red and Blue Chair
• Stanley Royle –
• John Singer Sargent – Sir Philip Sassoon
• Stanley Spencer – The Betrayal
• Lorado Taft – The Recording Angel
• Suzanne Valadon – Blue Room
• World War I Memorial (Berwick, Pennsylvania)
• Yokoyama Taikan – ''Metempsychosis''

Births

• January 16 – Keith Shackleton, English painter and television host
• February 10 – Shirley Jaffe, American-born abstract painter and sculptor
• March 9 – André Courrèges, French fashion designer
• April 8 – George Fisher, American political cartoonist
• April 24 – Cordelia Oliver, Scottish journalist, painter and art critic
• May 3 – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist
• May 15 – Richard Avedon, American photographer
• May 22 – Max Velthuijs, Dutch painter, illustrator and author
• May 27 – Inge Morath, Austrian photographer
• May 31 – Ellsworth Kelly, American artist
• June 3 – June Newton, Australian-born photographer
• June 24 – Marc Riboud, French photographer
• June 25 – Sam Francis, American painter and printmaker
• July 12 – Paul Jenkins, American abstract expressionist painter
• July 28 – Patrick George, English painter
• September 13 – Edouard Boubat, French photographer
• September 23 – Osuitok Ipeelee, Canadian Inuk sculptor
• October 7 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor
• October 27 – Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist
• October 28 – David Aronson, Lithuanian American painter
• November 15 – Miriam Schapiro, Canadian American feminist artist
• December 1 – Morris, Belgian cartoonist
• December 13 – Antoni Tàpies, Spanish painter date unknown – François Ozenda, French painter

Deaths

• January 12 – Marc Ferrez, Brazilian photographer
• January 31 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish modernist painter, art critic and assassin
• March 22 – Benjamin Williams Leader, English landscape painter
• April 15 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter
• April 17 – Jan Kotěra, Czech artist, architect and designer
• May 29 – Adolf Oberländer, German caricaturist
• June 15 – Joseph B. Davol, American marine painter
• June 21 – Edward Clark Potter, American sculptor
• July 23 – Willy Gretor, Danish-born painter and art dealer
• August 2/3 – Jacoba van Heemskerck, Dutch painter and graphic artist
• August 5 – Candace Wheeler, American designer
• October 2 – John Wilson Bengough, Canadian cartoonist
• October 19 – Eleanor Norcross, American painter
• November 2 – Stevan Aleksić, Serbian painter
• November 27 – Penleigh Boyd, Australian landscape painter
• December 13 – Théophile Steinlen, Swiss/French painter date unknown – Edwin Romanzo Elmer, American painter