1964 in art

Events

May – Pablo Picasso paints his fourth Head of a Bearded Man.^[1]
July 28 – Fondation Maeght museum of modern and contemporary art at Saint-Paul-de-Vence in the Alpes-Maritimes of France, designed by Spanish Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert, is opened.^[2]
October 6 - Generally acknowledged as the first exhibition of Pop Art "The American Supermarket" show curated by Ben Birillo opens at the Bianchini gallery in New York City featuring the work of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Mary Inman, Jasper Johns, Richard Artschwager, Robert Watts, Tom Wesselman, and Billy Apple.^[3]
The prize for foreign artist at the Venice Biennale is awarded to Robert Rauschenberg.
David Bailey issues Box of Pin-Ups, a collection of his photographic portraits, in London.
The National Gallery purchases Rembrandt's painting Belshazzar's Feast from The Art Fund.^[4]
At The Factory, performance artist Dorothy Podber shoots a hole in four Andy Warhol "Marilyn" silk screen paintings, inadvertently transforming them into the works which have come to be known as the Shot Marilyns and is summarily banned from the premises for life.^[5] The undamaged example, “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn”, will in 2022 sell at auction for a record price for a 20th-century work sold publicly and for a work by an American artist.^[6]

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Births

January 20 – Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, Spanish Catalan military and historical hyper realist painter
February 3 – Valérie Belin, French photographer^[14]
April 30 – Kelly Sullivan, American "FingerSmear" painter
May 17 – Rob Pruitt, American post-conceptual artist
June 23 – Peter Joyce, English landscape painter
September 10 – Edmund de Waal, English ceramicist
October 28 – Onofrio Catacchio, Italian comics artist
date unknown
- Paul Cadden, Scottish hyperrealist^[15]
- Mark Leckey, English visual artist

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Events