1986 in art

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Events from the year 1986 in art.

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
• Gilbert and George
  • Shortlisted: Art & Language, Victor Burgin, Derek Jarman, Stephen McKenna and Bill Woodrow

Exhibitions

• 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

• 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)
• The Headington Shark
  (Untitled 1986; painted fibreglass sculpture)
• 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)
• Detroit, Michigan
  , United  States
• 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
• Kalounna in Frogtown
  (Terra Foundation for American Art)
• Yu Tang Wang and Sun Chau – Chinatown Gateway (structure, Portland, Oregon)

Births

• 15 April – Amy Louise Nettleton, British installation and sculpture artist.
• Oscar Murillo
  , Colombian-born 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 Museum of Art (b. 1910).
• 31 May –
  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
  • 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

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

See also

• 1986 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References