1956 in art

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See also: List of years in Art and 1956 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union

Events

• Le mystère Picasso, a French documentary film, shows Pablo Picasso in the act of creating paintings for the camera (which he subsequently destroyed so that they would only exist on film).
• William Klein publishes his photo essay New York, 1954–55.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie – Mr Albert Namatjira
• Kate Greenaway Medal – Edward Ardizzone for Tim All Alone

Works

See also: Category:1956 paintings

• Pietro Annigoni – Portrait of Elizabeth II
• Alexander Calder – Red Mobile
• Salvador Dalí – Living Still Life
• Max Ernst – L’oiseau Rose
• Helen Frankenthaler – Eden
• Rudolf Hausner – The Ark of Odysseus
• Eduardo Kingman – La Lavendera
• L. S. Lowry - The Floating Bridge
• Candido Portinari – Self-portrait

Exhibitions

• This Is Tomorrow, Whitechapel Gallery, London – British Pop art

Births

• January 19 - Junpei Satoh, Japanese Western-style painter
• May 25 – Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist (d. 1988)

Deaths

• January 13 – Lyonel Feininger, painter and cartoonist (b. 1871)
• April 23 - Cecile Walton, painter, illustrator and sculptor (b. 1891)
• June 8 – Marie Laurencin, painter and engraver (b. 1883)
• July 26 – Louis Raemaekers, painter and cartoonist (b. 1869)
• August 7 – LeMoine Fitzgerald, painter (b. 1890)
• August 11 – Jackson Pollock, painter (b. 1912)
• August 16 – Theodor Pallady, painter (b. 1871)
• November 3 – Jean Metzinger, painter (b. 1883)
• December 16 – Nina Hamnett, painter and designer (b. 1890)

See also

• 1956 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union