1964 in art

Events from the year 1964 in art.

Events

• May – Pablo Picasso paints his fourth Head of a Bearded Man.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. 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.

Exhibitions

• November 9–30 – 8 Young Artists exhibition curated by Martin Ries and E. C. Goossen at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, including Carl Andre; subsequently travels to Bennington College, Vermont.
• The Post-painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by art critic Clement Greenberg opens at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and subsequently travels to the Walker Art Center and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.

Works

• Joseph Beuys – Fat Chair (sculpture)
• Pauline Boty – It's A Man's World
• Montague Dawson – Ariel and Taeping
• Barbara Hepworth – Single Form (United Nations Headquarters)
• Pilkington Jackson – Equestrian statue of Robert the Bruce, Bannockburn
• Jasper Johns – Studio
• Roy Lichtenstein
• Turkey Shopping Bag (printed edition)
• Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But...
• L. S. Lowry – The Black Church
• René Magritte – The Son of Man
• Ronald Moody – Savacou
• Constantino Nivola - Horses at the Stephen Wise Towers in Manhattan, New York City
• Josef Pillhofer – Reclining Man (Liegender Mann) (sculpture)
• Norman Rockwell
• Growth of a Leader
• The Problem We All Live With
• Gerald Scarfe – drawing of Winston Churchill
• Jean Tinguely – Heureka (kinetic sculpture)
• Andy Warhol
• Electric Chair (screen print)
• Empire (film – made)
• Heinz Tomato Ketchup Box
• Red Jackie
• The Shot Marilyns
• Sleep (film)
• Charles Wheeler – ' (gilded bronze, Thetford, England)
• David Wynne – The Beatles (bronzes)