1965 in art
Events
- March 19 – A record price of 760,000 guineas is paid at Christie's London auction house for Rembrandt's painting Titus.
- May – Avant-garde artists Marta Minujín and Rubén Santantonín present La Menesunda in Buenos Aires, one of the first installations in art history.[1]
- September – Indica Gallery counterculture bookshop and art gallery opens in London.[2]
- October 7 – Release in the United States of the biographical film The Agony and the Ecstasy with Charlton Heston portraying Michelangelo.
- December – Max's Kansas City nightclub opens in New York City; it quickly became a hangout of choice for artists and sculptors of the New York School and other members of the avante-garde.
- British sculptor Barbara Hepworth is created a Dame.[3]
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Clifton Pugh – R A Henderson
- John Moores Painting Prize - Michael Tyzack for " Alesso 'B' "[4]
Works
- Yaacov Agam – Double Metamorphosis II
- Mark di Suvero – Bunyon's Chess (sculpture, Seattle)
- Lucian Freud – Reflection with Two Children (Self-portrait)
- L. S. Lowry
- Huddersfield
- Industrial Scene
- Roman Opałka – 1965 /1 – ∞
- John Petts – Birmingham, Alabama, 16th Street Baptist Church, West Window
- Fairfield Porter – Elizabeth
- James Rosenquist – F-111
- David Wynne – Busts of Joan Baez and Oskar Kokoschka
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial (Portland, Oregon)
- Equestrian statue of José María Morelos
Births
- January 21 – Robert Del Naja, English graffiti artist and trip hop musician
- February 20 – Miriam Mone, Northern Irish fashion designer (died 2007)
- March 9 – Brom, American illustrator
- July 9 – Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (died 2006)
- December 16 – Ellen Gallagher, American artist
- date unknown
- Hurvin Anderson, English painter
- Tacita Dean, English-born visual artist
- Andrea Fraser, American performance artist
- Elizabeth Peyton, American portrait painter
- Jessica Voorsanger, American-born visual artist
- Alison Watt, Scottish painter
- Andrea Zittel, American installation artist and sculptor
Deaths
- January 3 – Milton Avery, American painter (born 1885)
- January 7 – Anne Redpath, Scottish still life painter (born 1895)
- January 27 – Abraham Walkowitz, American painter working in the Modernist style (born 1878)
- January 30 – Bernard Fleetwood-Walker, English artist (born 1893)
- February 18 – Yevgeny Charushin, Russian graphic artists (born 1901)
- February 24 – Frank H. Mason, English marine and poster painter (born 1875)
- May 7 – Charles Sheeler, American modernist painter and photographer (born 1883)
- May 19 – Albin Polasek, Czech American sculptor (born 1879)
- May 20 – Charles Camoin, French Fauvist painter (born 1879)
- June 14 – Zoltán Kemény, Hungarian Swiss sculptor (born 1907)
- June 21 – Piotr Buchkin, Russian painter and graphic artist (born 1886)
- June 26 – G. David Thompson, American industrialist and collector of modern art (born 1899)
- August 27 – Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French architect and painter (born 1887)
- September 17 – Wilhelm Heise, German painter (born 1892)
- October 19 – Edward Willis Redfield, American landscape painter (born 1869)
- date unknown – George Barker, American painter (born 1882)
References
- "Marta Minujín: Menesunda Reloaded". New Museum. June 26, 2019. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
- Barry, Miles (1998). Many Years From Now. Vintage–Random House. pp. 223–224. ISBN 0-7493-8658-4.
- "Dame Barbara Hepworth" Britannica. Accessed 18 October 2013
- "Alesso 'B' by Michael Tyzack (1933-2007) - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums". Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
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