1991 in art

Events

*14 April - In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.
*Opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
*Michael De Caso invents Rectoversion.

Exhibitions

*"Young British Artists" exhibitions at "Saatchi Gallery"
*Damien Hirst solo exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Awards

*Turner Prize - Anish Kapoor

Works

*"Las niñas en la alborada" - Félix Arauz
*"The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" - Damien Hirst
*"Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purposes of Understanding" - Damien Hirst
*"Self" - Marc Quinn

Deaths

January to June

*7 February - Jean-Paul Mousseau, Canadian artist (b.1927).
*13 February - Arno Breker, German sculptor (b.1900).
*29 March - Guy Bourdin, French photographer (b.1928).
*10 June - Jean Bruller, French writer and illustrator (b.1902).

July to December

*16 July - Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (b.1915).
*30 August - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b.1925).
*14 September - Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer and author (b.1910).
*7 November - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b.1920).
*18 November - Reg Parlett, English comics artist (b.1904).
*9 December - Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist (b.1927).
*10 December - Greta Kempton, Austrian-American artist (b.1901).