1982 in art

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Events

• Andy Warhol "falls in love" with Duran Duran at a Blondie concert.
• Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's animations play a major part in the success of the film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
• Photographer Jacqueline Livingston opens Jacqueline Livingston "A One Artist Gallery" in New York's Soho showing a different body of her work monthly for one year. Livingston and her gallery are placed under FBI surveillance because of accusations of child pornography.(reference corrected by the artist)

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Eric Smith - Peter Sculthorpe

Works

Paintings

• Avigdor Arikha - Marie-Catherine
• Wolf Kahn - My Barn on a Summer Night, Hirshhorn Museum
• Euan Uglow - Zagi

Other

• Henry Moore - The Artist's Hands I (charcoal, wax crayon and ballpoint pen)
• Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint-Phalle - Fontaine des automates, Paris

Deaths

• 17 January - Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (b.1905).
• 27 January - Félix Labisse, French painter and designer (b.1905).
• 6 February - Ben Nicholson, English abstract painter (b.1894).
• 10 June - Gala Dalí, Russian artist's model (b.1894).
• 29 June - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b.1914).
• 11 September - Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (b.1902).
• 17 September - Ettore DeGrazia, American impressionist, painter, sculptor and lithographer (b.1909).
• 10 October - Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (b.1908).