1983 in art

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Awards

• Archibald Prize: Nigel Thomson - Chandler Coventry

Works

See also: Category:1983 paintings

• Completion of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental artwork, Surrounded Islands, involving eleven islands being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet (600,000 m²) of fabric.
• Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle's kinetic artwork, the Stravinsky Fountain near the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Deaths

January to June

• 24 February - Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (b.1918).
• 3 March - Hergé, Belgian comics writer and artist (b.1907).
• 21 May - Kenneth Clark, English author, museum director, broadcaster and art historians (b.1903).
• 8 June - Rachel Baes, Belgian painter (b.1912).

July to December

• 18 August - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b.1902).
• 28 October - Otto Messmer, American animator (b.1892).
• 5 November - Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics creator (b.1941).
• 17 November - John Russell Harper, Canadian art historian (b.1914).
• 23 December - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (b.1910).
• 25 December - Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (b.1893).

Full date unknown

• Bernard Lamotte, French illustrator, painter and muralist (b.1903).
• Edward Wesson, English watercolour artist (b.1910).

See Also

• 1982 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

See Also

• 1983 in fine arts of the Soviet Union