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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
Works
See also: Category:1959 paintings
- Salvador Dalí - The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
- Ivan Generalić - The Deer Wedding
- Lee Krasner - Cool White
Births
- date unknown - Caio Fonseca
Deaths
- February 26 - Gabrielle Renard, artist's model
- April 9 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, innovator
- May 3 - Renato Birolli, painter
- June 8 - Pietro Canonica, sculptor (b. 1869)
- July 6 - George Grosz, painter and draftsman
- August 5 - Frank Godwin, illustrator
- August 19 - Jacob Epstein, sculptor (b. 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 (b. 1892)
- November 15 - Charles Jones, photographer
- November 24 - Stepan Erzya, sculptor
- December 9 - Gene Carr, cartoonist
- December 14 - Stanley Spencer, painter
- Date unknown:
- Winifred Brunton, painter
- Beatrix Farrand, landscape architect
- Toma Rosandić, sculptor
- Matthew Smith, painter
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