1917 in art

[edit] Events

• January - A drunken Amedeo Modigliani is ejected from a party for Georges Braque, by the hostess, Marie Vassilieff.
• January 29 - Rodin marries his mistress, Rose Beuret; she dies two weeks later.

[edit] Works

• Max Beckmann - Deposition (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• Henri Matisse - The Painter and his Model
• Joan Miró - The Village
• Amedeo Modigliani - Anna Zborowska
• Pablo Picasso - Olga Picasso in an Armchair
• Egon Schiele - The Embrace
• Marcel Duchamp - Fountain

[edit] Births

• 20 February - Manny Farber, American painter and film critic (d.2008).
• 20 February - Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter (d.2000).
• 24 March - Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (d.2007).
• 17 July - Andrew Wyeth.
• 28 August - Jack Kirby, American comic book artist, writer and editor (d.1994).
• 3 September - Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist (d.2000).
• 7 September - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (d.2000).
• 11 September - Daniel Wildenstein, French international art dealer and scholar (d.2001).
• 25 December - John Minton (d.1957).

[edit] Deaths

• January 21 - Francesca Alexander, illustrator (b. 1837)
• February 10 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
• March 28 - Albert Pinkham Ryder, painter (b. 1847)
• June 30 - Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
• September 27 - Edgar Degas, painter and sculptor (b. 1834)
• October 23 - Eugène Grasset, Swiss artist (b. 1845)
• November 17 - Auguste Rodin, sculptor (b. 1840)
• December 21 - Wilhelm Trübner, painter (b. 1851)
• Nathaniel Hone the Younger - Irish painter (b. 1831)
• Carolus-Duran, painter (b. 1837)
• Moses Jacob Ezekiel, sculptor (b. 1844)
• Robert Koehler, painter (b. 1850)
• Sir Charles Holroyd, etcher (b. 1861)