1955 in art

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The year 1955 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

January 21 – O. Winston Link starts a 5-year personal project to document steam operations on the Norfolk and Western Railway in the United States using flash photography.
January 26 – A trial establishes that the recently "restored" "medieval" frescoes in St. Mary's Church, Lübeck, were in fact newly painted by Lothar Malskat and an associate.[1]
March – A Photographer's Gallery is established in New York City by Roy DeCarava.
May 17 – The Clark Art Institute opens to the public in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
June 1 – Première of Billy Wilder's film of The Seven Year Itch featuring an iconic scene of Marilyn Monroe standing on a New York City Subway grating as her white dress (created by Travilla) is blown above her knees.[2]
June 27 – Sir Jacob Epstein marries Kathleen Garman.
December - Iris Clert Gallery opens in the rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and its owner, Iris Clert, first meets Yves Klein.
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- Marcel Duchamp becomes a citizen of the United States.
- Pablo Picasso finishes painting his Les Femmes d'Alger ("The Women of Algiers") series (inspired by Delacroix), concluding with "Version O" which in 2015 will sell at a world record price for a painting at auction.[3]
- British studio potter Alan Caiger-Smith establishes Aldermaston Pottery in England.
- Enrique Tabara obtains an Ecuadorian government scholarship to study in Spain.

January – The Family of Man, a photography exhibition curated by Edward Steichen, opens at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
October – First public exhibition of Yves Klein's monochrome oil paintings, at Club des Solitaires, Paris.
November 3–December 18 – Stanley Spencer: a Retrospective Exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London.[4]
Le Mouvement at Galerie Denise René, Paris, popularizing kinetic art.
Exhibition by London members of Groupe Espace, organized by Paule Vézelay at the Royal Festival Hall.

January 1 – Maria Bal, Polish model (b. 1879)
January 7 – Lamorna Birch, English painter (b. 1869)
February 11 – Olga Khokhlova, Russian-born ballet dancer and estranged wife of Picasso (b. 1891)
March 13 – Evie Hone, Irish painter and stained glass artist (b. 1894)
March 16 – Nicolas de Staël, Russian-born French impasto painter (b. 1914)
May 3 – Rudolf Schlichter, German painter (b. 1890)
May 10 – John Radecki, Polish-born Australian stained glass artist (b. 1865)
May 11 – Bradley Walker Tomlin, American painter (b. 1899)
May 23 – Auguste Chabaud, French painter (b. 1882)
June 1 – Antonio Dattilo Rubbo, Italian-born Australian painter and art teacher (b. 1870)
June 29 – Max Pechstein, German Expressionist artist (b. 1881)
August 17 – Fernand Léger, French artist (b. 1881)
September 19 – Carl Milles, Swedish sculptor (b. 1875)
September 27 – Leslie Garland Bolling, African American sculptor (b. 1898)
November 5 – Maurice Utrillo, French painter (b. 1883)
November 29 – Rene Paul Chambellan, American sculptor (b. 1893)
December 19 – Alexander Lubimov, Russian artist (b. 1879)
December 28 – Olive Edis, English photographer (b. 1876)

Keats, Jonathon (February 2012). "Pious Fraud". Art & Antiques. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
Filmed on location September 1954. "The Seven Year Itch (1955)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 2001-04-30. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
"Picasso's Women of Algiers smashes auction record". BBC News. 2015-05-12. Retrieved 2015-05-12.
"Stanley Spencer: a Retrospective Exhibition". Tate Britain. Retrieved 2012-04-10.

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