See also: 1905 in art, other events of 1906, 1907 in art, list of years in art See also: 1904 in art, other events of 1905, 1906 in art, list of years in art // Events The Art Deco movement begins in France Léon Bonnat succeeds Paul Dubois as director of the Ecole des Beaux Arts. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... See also: 1906 in art, other events of 1907, 1908 in art, list of years in art. ... This page indexes the individual year in art pages. ...

Events

• Gwen John begins modelling for Auguste Rodin.
• Amedeo Modigliani arrives in Paris.

Gwen John (1876-1939) was a Welsh artist. ... Auguste Rodin Rodins The Burghers of Calais in Calais, France. ... Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was a Jewish Italian painter and sculptor. ...

Works

• Paul Cézanne - The Gardener Vallier
• André Derain - Charing Cross Bridge, London
• Henri Matisse - Self-Portrait in a Striped T-Shirt and The Young Sailor II
• Pablo Picasso - Gertrude Stein and Self-Portrait with Palette

Self portrait Paul Cézanne (January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906) was a French artist, a painter (Postimpressionist) whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th Century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th. ... Charing Cross Bridge, London (1906) André Derain (June 10, 1880 - September 8, 1954) was a French painter and a illustrator. ... Photo of Henri Matisse taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1933. ... Young Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. ...

Births

• May 16 - Alfred Pellan, Canadian artist

May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... Alfred Pellan (16 May 1906 - 31 October 1988) is an important figure in twentieth-century Québec painting. ...

Deaths

• March 29 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter
• October 22 - Paul Cézanne, French painter