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Year | Winning artist | Winning work | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1956 | Ben Nicholson | August, 1956 (Val d'Orcia) | A table-top still life painting, influenced by Cubist abstraction and named after the Val d'Orcia in Tuscany | [1] [2] |
1958 | Joan Miró | Wall of the Sun and Wall of the Moon | Ceramic mural at the UNESCO building in Paris, made in collaboration with Josep Llorens Artigas | [3] [4] [5] |
1960 | Karel Appel | Woman with Ostrich [ permanent dead link ] (Dutch: "Vrouw en struisvogel") | Abstract image of swirling colours | [6] [7] [8] [9] |
1964 | Alberto Giacometti | Large Nude | Painting of a female figure | [10] [11] [12] |
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