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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
- July 6 - George Grosz, painter and draftsman
- 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
- September 18 - Adolf Ziegler, German painter and politician (b. 1892)
- November 15 - Charles Jones, photographer
- December 9 - Gene Carr, cartoonist
- December 14 - Stanley Spencer, painter
Date unknown:
- Winifred Brunton, painter
- Stepan Erzya, sculptor
- Beatrix Farrand, landscape architect
- Frank Godwin, illustrator
- Toma Rosandić, sculptor
- Matthew Smith, painter
- Pietro Canonica, sculptor (b. 1869)
