1889 in art

The year 1889 in art involved some significant events.

Events

 * February 2 – Sixth annual exhibition of Les XX opens in Brussels, including the first important display of Paul Gauguin's work.
 * May 6 – October 31 – Exposition Universelle in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower as its entrance arch.
 * May 8 – Van Gogh moves from Arles to the Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
 * June – The Volpini Exhibition: Exposition de peintures du Groupe impressioniste et synthétiste, faite dans le local de M. Volpini au Champ-de-Mars organised by Paul Gauguin and Émile Schuffenecker at the Café des Arts in Paris; other exhibitors include Émile Bernard and Charles Laval.
 * July 15 – The Scottish National Portrait Gallery opens in Edinburgh in premises designed by Rowand Anderson, the first in the world to be purpose-built as a portrait gallery.
 * July 23 – Marie Triepcke marries fellow-artist Peder Severin Krøyer in Augsburg.
 * August 17 – The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition opens in Melbourne, Australia.
 * Edvard Munch stages his first one-man exhibition and wins a state scholarship to study in Paris.
 * Alfred Sisley settles at Moret-sur-Loing.
 * The Skulpturensammlung moves into the Albertinum in Dresden.
 * The Imperial Museum of Nara is established in Japan.

Works



 * Jean Béraud - La Pâtisserie Gloppe
 * Pierre Bonnard – Self-portrait (approx. date)
 * William-Adolphe Bouguereau
 * Première rêverie
 * The Shepherdess
 * Antoine Bourdelle – Adam
 * Henry Jamyn Brooks – Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
 * Milly Childers – Self-portrait 
 * Henry de Groux – Christ aux Outrages
 * Thomas Eakins – The Agnew Clinic
 * Paul Gustav Fischer – The Royal Theatre Ballet School, Copenhagen
 * Stanhope Forbes – The Health of the Bride
 * Henry Justice Ford – Illustrations to Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book
 * Louis Édouard Fournier – The Funeral of Shelley
 * Paul Gauguin
 * The Green Christ and The Yellow Christ (Pont-Aven, c. September)
 * Portrait of Jacob Meijer de Haan (Le Pouldu, after October 2)
 * Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake (Le Pouldu, after October 2)
 * The Flageolet Player on the Cliff (Le Pouldu)
 * Alfred Gilbert – Marble bust of Queen Victoria
 * J. W. Godward
 * Grecian Reverie
 * His Birthday Gift
 * Ianthe
 * Waiting For An Answer
 * Félix Resurrección Hidalgo – La Parisienne
 * Jozef Israëls – A Son of the Ancient Race (several versions)
 * Juan Luna – Hymen o Hymenee
 * Frederick McCubbin – Down on His Luck
 * Arturo Michelena – La Joven Madre ("The Young Mother")
 * Claude Monet – The Valley of the Creuse, Sunset
 * Edvard Munch
 * Inger on the Beach, Summer Night
 * Music on Karl Johan Street
 * Spring
 * Blanche Nevin – Peter Muhlenberg (marble)
 * Eilif Peterssen – Salmon Fishermen at Nesøya
 * Ilya Repin – Portrait of Baroness Varvara Ivanovna Ikskul von Hildenbandt
 * Auguste Rodin – The Burghers of Calais (sculpture)
 * John Singer Sargent
 * Gabriel Fauré
 * Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth
 * Lady Fishing - Mrs Ormond
 * An Out-of-Doors Study
 * Henryk Siemiradzki – Phryne at the Poseidonia in Eleusis
 * Arthur Streeton – Golden Summer, Eaglemont
 * Franz Stuck – The Guardian of Paradise
 * Vincent van Gogh
 * Hospital in Arles series
 * Garden of the Hospital in Arles (June)
 * Ward in the Hospital in Arles (October)
 * Portrait of Doctor Félix Rey (January)
 * Self-portrait and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (January)
 * Self-Portrait as a sick person (Saint-Rémy, August)
 * Bedroom in Arles (second and third versions, September)
 * View of Arles, Flowering Orchards and View of Arles with Trees in Blossom (Spring)
 * Butterflies series (Spring)
 * Irises
 * Rain (Saint-Rémy, October/November)
 * The Ravine of the Peyroulets
 * A Road at Saint-Remy with Female Figure
 * The Starry Night (Saint-Rémy, June)
 * Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy series
 * Trees and Undergrowth series
 * Portrait of Trabuc, an Attendant at Saint-Paul Hospital and Portrait of Madame Trabuc (Saint-Rémy, September)
 * Two Crabs (c. January)
 * Wheat Fields series
 * Wheat Field, Sunrise (Saint-Rémy)
 * Wheat Field with Cypresses (three paintings, Saint-Rémy, July–September)
 * Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves (after Millet) 
 * Carl von Marr – The Flagellants
 * Fritz von Uhde – Heathland princess
 * Édouard Vuillard – Self-portrait
 * John Quincy Adams Ward – Bust of Alexander Lyman Holley (bronze, New York City)

Births

 * January 19 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss geometric abstract painter, sculptor and dancer (died 1943)
 * January 21 – Hermann Glöckner, German Constructivist painter and sculptor (died 1987)
 * April 15 – Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and muralist (died 1975)
 * May 11 – Paul Nash, English painter (died 1946)
 * June – James Sleator, Irish painter (died 1950)
 * July 31 – Júlíana Sveinsdóttir, Icelandic painter and textile artist (died 1966)
 * August 13 – C. R. W. Nevinson, English war artist (died 1946)
 * August 20 – David Kakabadze, Georgian artist (died 1952)
 * September 28 – Seán Keating, Irish romantic-realist painter (died 1977)
 * October 10 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter and art forger (died 1947)
 * October 17 – Karl Völker, German painter and architect (died 1962)
 * October 29 – Edward Wadsworth, English painter (died 1949)
 * November 1 – Hannah Höch, German Dada photomontage artist (died 1978)
 * November 10 – Clive Stephen, Australian sculptor (died 1957)

Deaths

 * January 23 – Alexandre Cabanel, painter (born 1823)
 * February 5 – James Smetham, pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1821)
 * February 24 – Philip Henry Delamotte, photographer and illustrator (born 1821)
 * May 23 – John O'Connor, painter (born 1830)
 * October 6 – Jules Dupré, painter (born 1811)
 * December 27 – Eduard Bendemann, painter (born 1811)
 * date unknown – Jules Tavernier, French painter (born 1844)