1982 in art

Events

*Andy Warhol "falls in love" with Duran Duran at a Blondie concert.
*Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's animations play a major part in the success of the film version of Pink Floyd's "The Wall".
*Photographer Jacqueline Livingston opens a gallery in Soho, London, which is placed under FBI surveillance because of accusations of child pornography.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Eric Smith - "Peter Sculthorpe"

Works

Paintings

*Wolf Kahn - "My Barn on a Summer Night", Hirshhorn Museum

Other

*Henry Moore - "The Artist's Hands I" (charcoal, wax crayon and ballpoint pen)
*Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint-Phalle - "Fontaine des automates", Paris

Exhibitions

Births

*Brian Watkins, painter

Deaths

*17 January - Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (b.1905).
*6 February - Ben Nicholson, English abstract painter (b.1894).
*10 June - Gala Dalí, Russian artist's model (b.1894).
*29 June - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b.1914).
*11 September - Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (b.1902).
*17 September - Ettore DeGrazia, American impressionist, painter, sculptor and lithographer (b.1909).
*10 October - Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (b.1908).

Full date unknown

*Félix Labisse, painter.