1986 in art

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Events

• 21 May – Eighteen Old Master paintings from the Beit collection are stolen from Russborough House in Ireland by Martin "The General" Cahill, the second major art theft from this location.
• 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.

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, Stephen McKenna and Bill Woodrow.

Works

See also: Category:1986 paintings and Category:1986 sculptures

• Animals in Pools, Portland, Oregon
• Aurora (Asawa), San Francisco
• Chinatown Gateway, Portland, Oregon
• Cornet (sculpture), Galveston, Texas
• Einstein Gargoyle, Eugene, Oregon
• Houston Triptych, Houston, Texas
• Mohandas Gandhi (Patel), New York City
• John Buckley – The Headington Shark (Untitled 1986; painted fibreglass sculpture)
• John Doubleday – Royal Marines Commando Memorial (Lympstone, England)
• David Hockney – Pearblossom Highway #2 (photocollage)
• Igor Mitoraj – Heros de Lumiere
• Odd Nerdrum – Return of the Sun
• Andrew Wyeth – Flood Plain
• Jamie Wyeth – Kalounna in Frogtown (Terra Foundation for American Art)

Births

January to June

• 15 April – Amy Louise Nettleton, British installation and sculpture artist.

Deaths

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).
• 9 June – Ilona Harima, Finnish painter (b. 1911).

July to December

• 7 April – Cecil King, Irish abstract-minimalist painter (b. 1921).
• 30 June – Guan Zilan, Chinese avant-garde painter (b. 1903)
• 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).
• 23 October – Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, British intelligence officer, mountaineer and painter (b.1893).

Undated

• Marko Čelebonović, Serbian painter (b. 1902).
• Guan Liang, Chinese artist (b. 1900).

See also

• 1986 in fine arts of the Soviet Union