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.
• September – Indica Gallery counterculture bookshop and art gallery opens in London.
• 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 avant-garde.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Clifton Pugh – R A Henderson
• John Moores Painting Prize – Michael Tyzack for " Alesso 'B' "
• British sculptor Barbara Hepworth is created a Dame.

Works

• Yaacov Agam – Double Metamorphosis II
• Joseph Beuys – How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (performance piece)
• Salvador Dalí - La Gare de Perpignan
• Mark di Suvero – Bunyon's Chess (sculpture, Seattle)
• Lucian Freud – Reflection with Two Children (self-portrait)
• Norman Lewis
  • Unknown Title (March on Washington)
  • Untitled
• L. S. Lowry
  • Huddersfield
  • Industrial Scene
• Miguel Miramontes – Equestrian statue of José María Morelos
• Roman Opałka – 1965 /1 – ∞
• John Petts – Birmingham, Alabama, 16th Street Baptist Church, West Window
• Fairfield Porter – Elizabeth
• James Rosenquist – F-111
• Andy Warhol – Empire (film, released)
• Carel Willink – To the Future
• David Wynne – Busts of Joan Baez and Oskar Kokoschka
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial (Portland, Oregon)

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
• April 20 – Mark Mallia, Maltese painter and sculptor (died 2024)
• 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
  • Susan Philipsz, Scottish sound artist
  • Jessica Voorsanger, American-born visual artist
  • Alison Watt, Scottish painter

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)
• December 24 – Adolf Hyła, Polish painter and art teacher (born 1897)
• December 27 – Edgar Ende, German painter (born 1901)
• date unknown – George Barker, American painter (born 1882)

References

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References

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5. https://www.pafa.org/museum/exhibitions/procession-art-norman-lewis
6. https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/inventing-downtown-artist-run-galleries-in-new-york-city-19521965-57383/
7. Borg, Neville. (2024-07-23). "Artist Mark Mallia dies aged 59".
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10. Bennett Simpson. (2006). "Make Your Own Life: Artists in & Out of Cologne". Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.
11. Jessica Lack. (August 26, 2009). "Artist of the Week 55: Jessica Voorsanger". Guardian.co.uk.