1999 in art

Events

*28 May - After 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo de Vinci’s "The Last Supper" is placed back on display in Milan, Italy.
*The Stuckism movement is founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson.

Exhibitions

*11 March - Jackson Pollock retrospective opens at the Tate London.

Works

*Anish Kapoor - "Taratantara" (Baltic Flour Mill, Gateshead)

Awards

*Archibald Prize - Euan MacLeod, "Self portrait/head like a hole"
*Schock Prize in Visual Arts - Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
*Turner Prize - Steve McQueen

Deaths

January to March

*28 January - Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b.1918).
*5 February - Nicholas Krushenick, American pop art painter (b.1929).
*18 February - Andreas Feininger, French-born American photographer (b.1906).
*10 March - Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (b.1919).
*20 March - Patrick Heron, English painter, writer and designer (b.1920).
*29 March - Lucien Aigner, Hungarian photographer (b.1901).

April to June

*24 April - Arthur Boyd, Australian painter and sculptor (b.1920).
*2 May - Tibor Kalman, Hungarian-American graphic designer (b.1949).
*12 May - Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator (b.1914).
*15 June - John Glashan, Scottish cartoonist, illustrator and playwright (b.1927).
*19 June - Oton Gliha, Croatian painter (b.1914).
*30 June - Edouard Boubat, French photographer (b.1923).

July to December

*14 July - Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer (b.1928).
*15 August - Hugh Casson, British architect, interior designer, artist, writer and broadcaster (b.1910).
*21 August - Leo Castelli, Italian-American art dealer and gallerist (b.1907).
*30 August - Raymond Poïvet, French cartoonist (b.1910).
*4 October - Bernard Buffet, French painter (b.1928).
*27 October - Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b.1903).
*18 November - Horst P. Horst, German American photographer (b.1906).
*12 December - Paul Cadmus, American painter (b.1904).
*28 December - Louis Féraud, French fashion designer and artist (b.1921).

Full date unknown

*Richard Allen, American Minimalist, Abstract, Systems, Fundamental and Geometric painter (b.1933).
*Yann Goulet, French sculptor, Breton nationalist and war-time collaborationist with Nazi Germany (b.1914).