1955 - Art

Art

Painting: Flag, White Flag, and Target with Four Faces (painted assemblage) by Augusta, Ga.-born painter and graphic artist Jasper Johns, 25; Scent by Jackson Pollock; Blue at Noon (oil on canvas) by Adolph Gottlieb; Portrait (box construction) by Joseph Cornell; Double Portrait of Berdie by Larry Rivers, who has painted two views of his mother-in-law in the nude; monochromatic surfaces by French painter Yves (originally Raymond) Klein, 27; The Women of Algiers, After Delacroix (series) by Pablo Picasso; Italian Square by Giorgio de Chirico; Brigitte Bardot by Kees Van Dongen, now 78, who has been a French citizen since 1929; Art Critic by Norman Rockwell. Surrealist Yves Tanguy dies of a stroke at Waterbury, Conn., January 15 at age 55; Nicolas de Staël jumps to his death from the terrace of his studio at Antibes March 16 at age 41; Fernand Léger dies at Gif-sur-Yvette, Seine-et-Oise August 17 at age 74 (he has been painter laureate of the French Communist Party); Maurice Utrillo dies of pneumonia at Dax in Landes November 5 at age 71.

Sculpture: Bed, Rebus, and Interview (assemblages) by Robert Rauschenberg; One and Others (painted wood) by Louise Bourgeois; Oval Sculpture (Delos) (wood) by Barbara Hepworth; the Aganippe Fountain by Carl Milles is installed at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art soon after Milles's death at Lidingö outside Stockholm September 19 at age 80.