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Events from the year 1986 in art.
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Events
edit- 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
edit- Archibald Prize – Davida Allen, Dr John Arthur McKelvey Shera
- Sulman Prize – Wendy Sharpe, Black Sun – Morning and Night
- Turner Prize – Gilbert and George
- Shortlisted: Art & Language, Victor Burgin, Derek Jarman, Stephen McKenna and Bill Woodrow
Exhibitions
edit- 23 November – The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890–1985 opens at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[1][2] Organized by Maurice Tuchman, this is the first public showing of the abstract art of Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint (died 1944).
Works
edit- David Adickes – Cornet (sculpture, Galveston, Texas)
- Yaacov Agam - Fire and Water Fountain at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, Israel (Dedicated)
- Ruth Asawa – Aurora (sculpture, San Francisco)
- John Buckley – The Headington Shark (Untitled 1986; painted fibreglass sculpture)
- Daniel Buren - Les Deux Plateaux in the inner courtyard (Cour d'Honneur) of the Palais Royal in Paris, France
- John Burgee and Philip Johnson – Clarke Memorial Fountain (Notre Dame, Indiana)
- Wayne Chabre – Einstein Gargoyle (sculpture, Eugene, Oregon)
- John Doubleday – Royal Marines Commando Memorial (Lympstone, England)
- Georgia Gerber – Animals in Pools (sculptures, Portland, Oregon)
- Robert Graham - Monument to Joe Louis installed at Hart Plaza in Detroit, Michigan, United States
- David Hockney – Pearblossom Highway #2 (photocollage)
- Ellsworth Kelly – Houston Triptych (bronze sculpture, Houston, Texas)
- Igor Mitoraj – Heros de Lumiere
- Odd Nerdrum – Return of the Sun
- Kantilal B. Patel – Mohandas Gandhi (sculpture, New York City)
- Andy Warhol
- Camouflage
- Map of Eastern U.S.S.R. Missile Bases
- The Last Supper (Series completed )
- Andrew Wyeth – Flood Plain
- Jamie Wyeth – Kalounna in Frogtown (Terra Foundation for American Art)
- Yu Tang Wang and Sun Chau – Chinatown Gateway (structure, Portland, Oregon)
Births
edit- 15 April – Amy Louise Nettleton, British installation and sculpture artist.
- Oscar Murillo, Colombian-born artist.
Deaths
editJanuary to June
edit- 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 Museum of Art (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
edit- 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
- Ernst Haas, Austrian photographer (b. 1921).
- Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (b. 1894).
- 18 September – Corita Kent, American nun and silkscreen printer (b. 1918).
- 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
edit- Marko Čelebonović, Serbian painter (b. 1902).
- Guan Liang, Chinese artist (b. 1900).
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ The Spiritual in Art, Abstract Painting 1890-1985. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 1986. ISBN 0-89659-669-9.
- ^ "Art view: How the spiritual infused the abstract". The New York Times. 1986-12-21.
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