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Overview of the events of 1956 in art
Events March 1 – Replica statue of the Discus Thrower Washington, D.C. , as a gift from the Italian government to commemorate the return of looted art objects after World War II .[1] March – 56 Group founded, to promote modernist art in Wales . Subsequently renamed 56 Group Wales .
September 17 – Release in the United States of the biographical film Lust for Life Kirk Douglas portraying Vincent van Gogh and Anthony Quinn as Paul Gauguin .Le mystère Picasso Pablo Picasso in the act of creating paintings for the camera (which he subsequently destroys so that they will exist only on film).William Klein publishes his photo essay New York, 1954–55 .Shanghai Art Museum , the predecessor of the China Art Museum , opens.English curator Jim Ede settles at Kettle's Yard , Cambridge , England .
English painter Edward Seago joins a tour of the Antarctic . Awards Works Exhibitions Births Deaths January 13 – Lyonel Feininger , German American painter and cartoonist (b. 1871 )April 23 – Cecile Walton , Scottish painter, illustrator and sculptor (b. 1891 )May 3 – Peter Watson , English arts benefactor (murdered) (b. 1908 )June 8 – Marie Laurencin , French painter and engraver (b. 1883 )July 26 – Louis Raemaekers , Dutch painter and cartoonist (b. 1869 )August 7 – LeMoine FitzGerald , Canadian painter (b. 1890 )August 11 – Jackson Pollock , American painter (b. 1912 )August 16 – Theodor Pallady , Romanian painter (b. 1871 )November 3 – Jean Metzinger , French painter (b. 1883 )December 16 – Nina Hamnett , British painter, model and designer (b. 1890 )Mohamed Nagy , Egyptian painter (b. 1888 )See also References 
