- 1956 in art
List of years in Art Awards
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Archibald Prize :William Dargie - "MrAlbert Namatjira "
*Kate Greenaway Medal -Edward Ardizzone for "Tim All Alone"Works
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Alexander Calder - "Red Mobile"
*Max Ernst - "L’oiseau Rose"
*Helen Frankenthaler - "Eden"
*Rudolf Hausner - "The Ark of Odysseus"
*Eduardo Kingman - "La Lavendera"
*Candido Portinari - "Self-portrait"Exhibitions
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This Is Tomorrow ",Whitechapel Gallery , London - BritishPop art Births
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25 May -Andrea Pazienza , Italiancomics artist (d.1988).Deaths
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January 13 -Lyonel Feininger , painter and cartoonist (b. 1871)
*June 8 -Marie Laurencin , painter and engraver (b. 1883)
*July 26 -Louis Raemaekers , painter and cartoonist (b. 1869)
*August 11 -Jackson Pollock , painter (b. 1912)
*November 3 -Jean Metzinger , painter (b. 1883)
*December 16 -Nina Hamnett , painter and designer (b. 1890)
*Theodor Pallady , painter (b. 1871)
*LeMoine Fitzgerald , painter (b. 1890)
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