WBouquet près de la fenêtre is an oil on canvas painting by Marc Chagall dated 1959–1960. Franz Meyer, Chagall's biographer, called it one of Chagall's finest flower paintings.
WCanyon is a 1959 artwork by American artist Robert Rauschenberg. The piece is one of his most celebrated and best known works, and is one of his combine paintings, which incorporated elements of sculpture into canvas-based pieces. Canyon features a taxidermied eagle, a pillow, and other elements.
WDie Fahne Hoch! is a Minimalist painting by Frank Stella completed in 1959. The use of basic geometric systems in the work is regarded by many as the precursor of Minimalism. The painting was made by marking equal subdivisions along the sides, bottom and top edges of the canvas and using these intervals to generate simple, symmetrical patterns consisting of bands of black enamel paint separated by thin lines of unpainted canvas.
WThe Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus is a painting by artist Salvador Dalí, begun in 1958 and finished in 1959. It is over 14 feet tall and over 9 feet wide, one in a series of large paintings Dalí did during this era.
WThe Sleep is an oil painting by Corneliu Baba, from 1959.
WSpring Day (Russian: Весенний день is a painting by Russian artist Nikolai Matveevich Pozdneev. It attempts to convey the mood of Soviet society of the late 1950s to the early 1960s.
WTwo Running Girls is a 1959 painting by Australian artist John Brack. The painting depicts two girls, wearing dresses and with their hair tied, running from the viewer.