2002 in art

Events

*10 July - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet.

Full date unknown

*Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art opens to the public.
*A sculpture by Henri Matisse, "Reclining Nude I (Dawn)", is sold for US$ 9.2 million, a record for a Matisse sculpture.

Awards

*Archibald Prize - Cherry Hood, "Simon Tedeschi Unplugged"
*Beck's Futures - Toby Paterson
*Turner Prize - Keith Tyson
*Wynne Prize - Angus Nivision, "Remembering Rain"

Works

*Anish Kapoor - "Marsyas" (Tate Modern)

Deaths

January to June

*30 January - Inge Mörath, Austrian photographer (b.1923).
*12 March - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (b.1923).
*22 May - Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, painter, and film maker (b.1930).
*12 June - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b.1922).

July to December

*8 July - Ward Kimball, American Academy Award-winning animator (b.1914).
*13 July - Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian photographer (b.1908).
*17 July - George Rickey, American kinetic sculptor (b.1907).
*22 August - Richard Lippold, American sculptor (b.1915).
*23 November - Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b.1911).
*9 December - Ian Hornak, American painter and draughtsman (b.1944).
*9 December - Stan Rice, American poet and artist (b.1942).
*26 December - Herb Ritts, American photographer (b.1952).