Events from the year1913 in art.

• January 16 (OS) –Ilya Repin's paintingIvan the Terrible and His Son Ivan in theTretyakov Gallery,Moscow, is slashed.
• January 19 –Lovis Corinth's retrospective opens at theMunich Secession galleries.^[1] This year the "New Munich Secession" splits from the Munich Secession.
• End of January –Franz Marc'sCollection II opens at the Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser inMunich.^[1] This is followed at the gallery in February by the first major retrospective ofPicasso's work.
• February–March – English painterOlive Hockin is implicated insuffragette attacks.^[2]

• February 17 – TheArmory Show opens inNew 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 sculptorCamille Claudel is committed by her family to apsychiatric hospital where she will remain until her death in 1943.^[1]
• April –Marcel Duchamp withdraws from painting and begins working as a library assistant in theSainte-Geneviève Library in Paris to be able to earn a living wage while concentrating on scholarship and working on hisThe Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.^[1]
• May – ThePaul Émile Chabas paintingSeptember Morn provokes a charge of indency when displayed in the window of aChicago art gallery.
• May 27 –Die Brücke dissolved.^[1]
• May 29 – TheballetThe Rite of Spring, with music byIgor Stravinsky conducted byPierre Monteux, choreography byVaslav Nijinsky and design byNicholas Roerich, is premièred bySergei Diaghilev'sBallets Russes at theThéâtre des Champs-Élysées inParis, itsmodernism provoking one of the most famousclassical music riots in history.^[3] The audience includesGabriele D'Annunzio,Coco Chanel,Marcel Duchamp,Harry Graf Kessler andMaurice Ravel.^[1]
• August–September –Ernst Ludwig Kirchner spends the summer painting on the island ofFehmarn; returning to Berlin he begins his series ofstreet scenes from around thePotsdamer Platz.^[1]
• September 19 –First German Autumn Salon opens in Berlin, featuring 366 paintings by 90 artists from 12 countries, notablyFranz Marc;Guillaume Apollinaire andFilippo Tommaso Marinetti deliver accompanying lectures.^[1]
• Autumn – TheNeue Galerie in Berlin reopens with displays of the work ofPicasso and others associated with FrenchModernism.^[1]
• October –August Macke paints atHilterfingen.^[1]
• October 18 –Monument to the Battle of the Nations atLeipzig, designed byBruno Schmitz incorporating sculptures byChristian Behrens andFranz Metzner, is inaugurated.^[4]
• December 12 –Leonardo da Vinci'sMona Lisa, stolen from theLouvre in1911, is located inFlorence whenVincenzo Peruggia attempts to sell it. It is returned to Paris on December 30.
• Generación del 13 established inChile.
• The London Group is formed by merger of theCamden Town Group and theVorticists; it will hold its first exhibition in March 1914.
• Target, the first exhibition ofRayonism.
• Maurice Utrillo has his first solo exhibition, at the Galerie Blot inParis, but attracts little notice at this time.^[5]
• Omega Workshops established inLondon byRoger Fry and other members of theBloomsbury Group to produce artist-designed furniture and textiles.Wyndham Lewis and others secede in October.
• First observation of achimpanzee drawing.^[6]
• English connoisseurHugh Blaker discovers and acquires the "Isleworth Mona Lisa".
• Guillaume Apollinaire'sThe Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations (Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques) is published in Paris.
• TheRussian Futurist operaVictory Over the Sun byMikhail Matyushin andAleksei Kruchyonykh with stage design byKazimir Malevich premieres inSt. Petersburg, Russia. It is for this opus that Malevich creates his firstBlack Square as part of his stage design. Some consider this the beginning of Malevich'sSuprematist period^[7]

• Anna Ancher –Fru Ane Brøndum i den blå stue (Portrait of the Artist's Mother)
• Max Beckmann –Sinking of the Titanic^[1]
• 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
  • The Anxious Journey
  • Ariadne
  • The Soothsayer's Recompense
  • The Transformed Dream
• Charles F. Church -The Dangerous Servants - Evils of Coffee, Alcohol and Tobacco
• Salvador Dalí (aged about 9) –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 –To the Convalescent Woman (triptych)
• Albert Herter –The Pageant of Nations (forSt. Francis Hotel,San Francisco)
• James Dickson Innes –Arenig, North Wales
• 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 (Barnes Foundation)^[8]
  • The Conquest of the Air (La conquête de l'air;Museum of Modern Art,New York)
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Berlin Street Scene
  • Portrait of Erna Schilling
  • Street, Berlin
• Gustav Klimt –The Maiden
• Laura Knight –Self Portrait with Nude
• Oskar Kokoschka –Double Portrait of Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler^[1]
• František Kupka –The Cathedral (Katedrála)
• Jacques Henri Lartigue –LeGrand Prix A.C.F. (photograph)^[9]
• Fernand Léger –Contrasting Forms
• August Macke
  • Lady in a Green Jacket
  • People at the Blue Lake
  • Promenade
  • Sunlight Walk (Sonniger Weg)
  • Tightrope walker (Seiltänzerin)
  • Two Girls
• Kazimir Malevich
  • Bureau and Room
  • Cow and Fiddle
  • Head of a Peasant Girl (1912–13)
  • The Knife Grinder (Principle of Glittering) (1912–13)
  • Portrait of Mikhail Matyushin
• Franz Marc
  • The Bewitched Mill
  • Birth of the Wolves (woodcut)
  • Deer in the Forest I
  • Fate of the Animals (Tierschicksale)
  • The Foxes
  • The Tower of Blue Horses (missing since 1945)
  • The Wolves (Balkan War)
• Henri Matisse
  • Arab Coffeehouse
  • The Blue Window
• Sidney Meteyard –"I Am Half-Sick of Shadows", Said the Lady of Shalott
• 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 (Musée Picasso,Paris)
  • 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? (circa)^[10]

• Karl Bitter –Carl Schurz Monument,New York City
• Umberto Boccioni
  • Development of a Bottle in Space
  • Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
• Joseph Csaky –Figure de Femme Debout (Figure Habillée)
• Marcel Duchamp –Bicycle Wheel (readymade)
• Jacob Epstein –The Rock Drill (original form)
• Four Southern Poets Monument, Augusta, Georgia
• James Earle Fraser –Buffalo nickel (United States coinage)
• 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 (found object)
• Mahonri Young –Seagull Monument,Salt Lake City

• January 29 –Reuben Kadish, American artist and educator (died1992)
• January 30 –Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Indian painter (died1941)
• February 15 –William Scott,Ulster Scots painter (died1989)
• March 8 –Peter Wilson, English art auctioneer (died1984)
• March 12 –Max Leognany, French artist (died1994)
• March 19 –Mary Henry, American painter (died2009)
• March 23 –Abidin Dino, Turkish artist (died1993)
• March 29 –Hyman Bloom,Latvian American painter (died2009)
• April 21 –Norman Parkinson, English fashion photographer (died1990)
• May 6 –Marianne Appel, American mural painter and puppet designer (died1988)
• May 7 -Mary Spencer Watson, English sculptor (died2006)
• May 27 –Wols, born Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, German-born painter and draughtsman (died1951)
• July 12 –Roger Testu, French cartoonist (died2008)
• July 22 –Robert C. Turner, American potter (died2005)
• July 27 –Philip Guston, Canadian-born AmericanAbstract Expressionist painter andprintmaker (died1980)
• August 10 –Lajos Tscheligi, Hungarian painter (died2003)
• September 1 –Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter andgraphic artist (died1979)
• September 25 –Tony O'Malley, Irish painter (died2003)
• September 28 –Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (died2007)
• October 22 –Robert Capa, born Endre Friedmann, Hungarian-born war photographer (died1954)
• November 21 –Tomie Ohtake, Japanese-Brazilian artist (died2015)
• December 13 –Vladimir Tretchikoff, Russian artist (died2006)
• December 24 –Ad Reinhardt, American painter and writer (died1967)
• Full date unknown
  • Russell Brockbank, Canadian-borncartoonist (died1979)
  • Mercedes Matter, born Mercedes Carles, American painter (died2001)

• January 6 –Gyula Juhász, Hungarian sculptor and engraver (born1876)
• March 8 –Louis Saint-Gaudens, American sculptor (born1854)
• March 13 –Félix Resurrección Hidalgo, Filipino painter (born1855)
• April 20 –Vilhelm Bissen, Danish sculptor (born1836)
• May 10 –Andreas Aubert, Norwegian art historian (born1851)
• June 23 -Marc-Louis Solon, French-born ceramic artist (born1835)
• July 10 –Mikoláš Aleš, Czech painter (born1852)
• August 2 -George Hitchcock, American painter (born1850)
• August 7 –Fernand Pelez, French painter (born1843)
• September 28 – SirAlfred East, English painter (born1844)
• October 5 –Hans von Bartels, German painter (born 1856)
• Full date unknown –Caroline Shawk Brooks, American sculptor (born1840)

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