1911 in art

Events

• February 2 – First issue of Franz Pfemfert's Die Aktion.
• May – Only exhibition by The London Secession group of photographers, at the Newman Gallery.
• June 10 – Rembrandt House Museum opened in Amsterdam.
• August 21 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia; the theft is discovered the following day when painter Louis Béroud arrives to sketch it but the painting is not located until December 1913. Poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire and his friend Pablo Picasso are questioned over the theft.
• Creation of Der Blaue Reiter Group.
• Creation of the Puteaux Group.
• Creation of the Camden Town Group.
• Wassily Kandinsky publishes Über das Geistige in der Kunst, Insbesondere in der Malerei, dated 1912.
• Rayonism developed in Russia by Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova.
• English wood engraver Gwen Darwin marries French painter Jacques Raverat.

  Exhibitions

• April 21–June 13 – Salon des Indépendants; Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Henri Le Fauconnier, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger, Joseph Csaky and Roger de La Fresnaye are shown together in Room 41, provoking an 'involuntary scandal' out of which Cubism emerges and spreads in Paris. The term "Cubism" is first used in English.
• May 11 – A Futurist exhibition in Milan is the first of efforts by the group to make its theories concrete.
• May 20–July 2 – Second International Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf, organised by Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler
• October 1–November 8 – Salon d'Automne; At this exhibition, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Henri Le Fauconnier, Fernand Léger, František Kupka, André Lhote, Roger de La Fresnaye, Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Archipenko, Joseph Csaky exhibit Cubist works; and André Mare designs the decorative arts section.
• One-man show by Eugeniusz Żak at Galerie Druet.

  Works

• Umberto Boccioni
• * :File:Umberto Boccioni - Laughter.jpg|The Laugh
• * :File:Modern Idol by Umberto Boccioni, 1911 Estorick Collection.jpeg|Modern Idol
• * States of Mind: :File:States of Mind- The Farewells by Umberto Boccioni, 1911.jpeg|The Farewells; Those Who Go; :File:States of Mind III; Those Who Stay, by Umberto Boccioni, 1911.jpg|Those Who Stay
• * The Street Enters the House
• Carlo Carrà – The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli
• Marc Chagall – I and the Village
• Giorgio de Chirico
• * Enigma of the Hour
• * The Nostalgia of the Infinite
• Robert Delaunay – :File:Delaunay ChampDeMars.jpg|Champs de Mars: La Tour Rouge
• Herbert Dicksee – Where's Master?
• Lydia Field Emmet – Olivia
• Albert Gleizes
• * Portrait de Jacques Nayral
• * La Chasse
• * Le Chemin, Paysage à Meudon
• J. W. Godward
• * :File:Godward-In Realms of Fancy-1911.jpg|In Realms Of Fancy
• * On The Balcony
• Duncan Grant –
• Herbert Hampton – Statue of the Duke of Devonshire, Whitehall
• Goscombe John – Statue of Charles Rolls, Monmouth
• Alfons Karpiński – The Parisian Street
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
• * :File:Kirchner Böhmischer Waldsee, 1911.jpg|Böhmischer Waldsee
• * :File:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Portrait of a Woman.jpg|Portrait of a Woman
• Fernand Léger
• * :File:Fernand Léger, 1910-11, Le compotier, oil on canvas, 82.2 x 97.8 cm, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.jpg|Le compotier
• * :File:Fernand Léger, 1911, Roofs in Paris, oil on canvas, private collection.jpg|Les Toits de Paris
• Wilhelm Lehmbruck – :File:Lml6.jpg|Kneeling
• Edmund Leighton – Stitching the Standard
• Paul Manship – Duck Girl
• Franz Marc
• * :File:Marc-blue-black fox.jpg|Blue-Black Fox
• * :File:Franz Marc Blaues Pferd 1911.jpg|Blaues Pferd I
• * :File:Franz Marc 005.jpg|Die großen blauen Pferde
• * :File:Franz Marc - Red Horses.jpg|Die großen roten Pferde
• * :File:Franz Marc- Die kleinen blauen Pferde.jpg|The Little Blue Horses
• * :File:Franz Marc - Nudes under Trees - Google Art Project.jpg|Nudes Under Trees
• * :File:Franz Marc-The Yellow Cow-1911.jpg|The Yellow Cow
• Henri Matisse – L'Atelier Rouge
• Jean Metzinger – Le goûter
• Piet Mondrian – Gray Tree
• Emil Nolde – Maskenstilleben
• Pablo Picasso
• * The Accordionist
• * Le pigeon aux petits pois
• Herbert Ponting – :File:Grotto in an iceberg, Herbert George Ponting, original.jpg|Grotto in an Iceberg
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir – :File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir 039.jpg|Gabrielle with Rose
• John Singer Sargent – Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara
• Egon Schiele
• * :File:Egon Schiele 045.jpg|Mädchen
• * :File:Egon Schiele 073.jpg|Masturbation
• Paul Signac – :File:Paul Signac - Antibes, die Türme.jpeg|Antibes: the towers
• Charles Robinson Sykes – Spirit of Ecstasy
• Tiffany glass curtain at Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City
• Lesser Ury – :File:Lesser Ury Mädchen im Romanischen Café 1911.jpg|Woman in the Romanisches Café
• Adolf Wölfli – :File:Adolf Wölfli General view of the island Neveranger, 1911.jpg|General view of the island Neveranger

  Births

• January 2 – Alexander Džigurski, Serbian seascape artist.
• January 17 – Izis Bidermanas, Lithuanian-born photographer.
• February 10 – Mallica Reynolds, Jamaican painter, sculptor and religious leader.
• March 4 – Ilona Harima, Finnish painter.
• March 7 – Edmund Teske, American photographer.
• March 17 – David Park, American painter.
• March 23 – Roger Hilton, English painter.
• May 14 – Carl Abrahams, Jamaican painter.
• May 25 – Will Barnet, American painter, printmaker.
• June 11 – Coby Whitmore, American painter and illustrator
• July 15 – Juliet Pannett, English portrait artist.
• August 10 – Bruce Ariss, American artist.
• September 2 – Romare Bearden, American painter, printmaker.
• October 9 – Joe Rosenthal, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer.
• November 11 – Roberto Matta, Chilean painter.
• November 25 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter.
• December 16 – Brett Weston, American photographer.
• December 25 – Louise Bourgeois, French-born painter and sculptor.

  Deaths

• January 19 – Valentin Serov, Russian painter
• January 28 – John MacWhirter, Scottish-born landscape painter
• February 22 – Carl Fredrik Hill, Swedish painter
• April 6 – Carl von Perbandt, German landscape painter
• April 13 – William Keith, Scottish American landscape painter
• April 19 – Ivan Grohar, Slovenian Impressionist painter
• May 5 – Halsey Ives, American art teacher and curator
• May 8 – Alphonse Legros, French-born painter and etcher
• August 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American-born painter and illustrator
• August 12 – Jozef Israëls, Dutch painter
• September 16 – Hishida Shunsō, Japanese painter
• October 15 – Ellen Thayer Fisher, American botanical painter
• November 10 – Félix Ziem, French painter
• – Stefano Bruzzi, Italian painter