1986 in art
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[edit] Events
- 19 August – Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting Weeping Woman is found in a locker at Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, Australia.
- Opening of the Musée d'Orsay (formerly the Gare d'Orsay) in Paris.
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: Davida Allen – Dr John Arthur McKelvey Shera
- Sulman Prize – Wendy Sharpe – Black Sun – Morning and Night
- Turner Prize – Gilbert and George
- Shortlisted were: Art & Language, Victor Burgin, Derek Jarman, Steven McKenna and Bill Woodrow.
[edit] Works
- John Doubleday – Royal Marines Commando Memorial (Lympstone, England)
- Igor Mitoraj – Heros de Lumiere
- Jamie Wyeth – Kalounna in Frogtown (Terra Foundation for American Art)
[edit] Births
[edit] January to June
- 15 April – Amy Louise Nettleton, British installation and sculpture artist.
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January to June
- 6 March – Georgia O'Keeffe American artist (b. 1887).
- 26 April – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899).
- 11 May – Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American art collector, philanthropist and chairman of Philadelphia Art Museum (b. 1910).
- 31 May – Jane Frank, American painter, sculptor, mixed media artist and textile artist (b. 1918).
[edit] July to December
- 7 April – Cecil King, Irish abstract-minimalist painter (b. 1921)
- 22 July – Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist (b. 1905).
- 31 August – Henry Moore, English artist and sculptor (b. 1898)
- 9 September – Albert Malet, French painter (b. 1912)
- 12 September
- Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (b. 1894).
- Ernst Haas, Austrian photographer (b. 1921).
- 11 October – Barker Fairley, English-born Canadian painter, writer, and educator (b. 1887).