1959 in art

Events

• André Breton asks Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Enrique Tábara, and Eugenio Granell to represent Spain by exhibiting some of their works in the Homage to Surrealism Exhibition celebrating the Fortieth Anniversary of Surrealism.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dobell - Dr Edward MacMahon
• Knighthood (United Kingdom): Stanley Spencer

Works

• Salvador Dalí - The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
• Ivan Generalić - The Deer Wedding
• Asger Jorn - Solvejg
• Franz Kline - Orange and Black Wall
• Lee Krasner - Cool White
• Pablo Picasso - Le déjeuner sur l'herbe
• Nikolai Pozdneev - Spring Day
• Ad Reinhardt - Abstract Painting Diptych
• Stanley Spencer - Self-portrait

Publications

• John Golding - Cubism: a history and an analysis, 1907-1914

Births

• date unknown - Caio Fonseca

Deaths

• January 29 - Winifred Brunton, painter (born 1880)
• February 26 - Gabrielle Renard, artist's model
• February 28 - Beatrix Farrand, landscape architect
• April 9 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, innovator
• May 3 - Renato Birolli, painter
• June 8 - Pietro Canonica, sculptor (born 1869)
• July 6 - George Grosz, painter and draftsman (born 1893)
• July 17 - Sir Alfred Munnings, equine painter (born 1878)
• August 5 - Frank Godwin, illustrator
• August 19 - Sir Jacob Epstein, sculptor (born 1880)
• August 20 - Alfred Kubin, illustrator
• September 9 - Merric Boyd, painter, sculptor and ceramic artist
• September 13 - Adrian, Hollywood costume designer
• September 18
  • Benjamin Péret, editor of La Révolution surréaliste
  • Adolf Ziegler, German painter and politician (born 1892)
• October 6 - Bernard Berenson, art historian (born 1865)
• November 15 - Charles Jones, photographer
• November 24 - Stepan Erzya, sculptor
• December 9 - Gene Carr, cartoonist
• December 14
  • Lizzy Ansingh, Dutch painter (born 1875)
  • Sir Stanley Spencer, English painter (born 1891)
• date unknown - Matthew Smith, painter

See also

• 1959 in fine arts of the Soviet Union