1895 in art

The year 1895 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• January 1 – Alphonse Mucha's lithographed poster for the play Gismonda starring Sarah Bernhardt is posted in Paris. Bernhardt is so satisfied with its success that she gives Mucha a six-year contract.
• April 13 – The Russian Museum is established in Saint Petersburg by Nicholas II.
• April 30 – First Venice Biennale opens.
• May 6 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1895 opens at Burlington House in London
• July 3 – Paul Gauguin leaves France to settle permanently in Polynesia.
• October – Edvard Munch exhibits an extended series of his Love paintings in Christiania, Norway.
• November – Paul Cézanne has his first solo exhibition, at the Paris gallery of Ambroise Vollard.
• Munch (probably) writes "Could only have been painted by a madman" (Kan kun være malet af en gal Mand!) on his 1893 painting The Scream.
• Bernard Berenson publishes Lorenzo Lotto: An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism.
• P. H. Emerson publishes his last photographic book, Marsh Leaves.
• M. H. de Young Memorial Museum opened in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

Works

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema – A Coign of Vantage
• Rodolfo Amoedo – Más Notícias
• Aubrey Beardsley – ' (ink drawing)
• William Adolphe Bouguereau -'
• John Cassidy – Statue of Edward Colston (Bristol)
• Paul Cézanne
• The Boy in the Red Vest
• ' (approximate date)
• Edgar Degas
• After the Bath, Woman drying herself (probable latest date)
• Thomas Eakins – Portrait of Maud Cook
• Paul Gauguin – Oviri (stoneware)
• Countess Feodora von Gleichen – Statue of Queen Victoria surrounded by children, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
• J. W. Godward
• Mischief And Repose
• The Muse Erato At Her Lyre
• Sydney Prior Hall – Joseph Chamberlain and Arthur Balfour
• Winslow Homer
• Cannon Rock
• Northeaster
• George W. Joy
• The Bayswater Omnibus
• Joan of Arc
• Sir Frederic Leighton
• Candida
• Flaming June
• Lachrymae
• Listener
• The Maid with the Golden Hair
• A Study
• '
• Isaac Levitan – Fresh Wind. Volga
• Juan Luna
• La Bulaqueña
• Tampuhan
• Henry Arthur McArdle – '
• Louis Maurer – '
• Gustave Moreau – Jupiter and Semele
• Edvard Munch
• Jealousy
• Madonna
• Self-Portrait with Cigarette
• ' (lithograph)
• Roderic O'Conor – '
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir – '
• Tom Roberts – Bailed Up
• John Singer Sargent – '
• Carlos Schwabe – ' ("The Death of the Gravedigger")
• Valentin Serov – '
• Marianne Stokes – '
• Théophile Steinlen – Les Chanteurs des Rues
• Vardges Sureniants – '
• Dorothy Tennant – '
• James Tissot – '
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec –
• Louis Tuaillon – Amazone zu Pferde (bronze equestrian statue, Berlin)
• Laurits Tuxen – '
• John Henry Twachtman – ' (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
• Félix Vallotton – Clair de lune ("Moonlight")
• J. Alden Weir – The Ice Cutters
• W. L. Wyllie – '