1986 in art

Events

*19 August - Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting "Weeping Woman" is found in a locker at the 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"
*Turner Prize - Gilbert and George
**Shortlisted were: Art & Language, Victor Burgin, Derek Jarman, Steven McKenna and Bill Woodrow.

Works

*John Doubleday - Royal Marines Commando Memorial (Lympstone, England)
*Igor Mitoraj - " _fr. Heros de Lumiere"
*Jamie Wyeth - "Kalounna in Frogtown" (Terra Foundation for American Art)

Births

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 Art Museum (b.1910).
*31 May - Jane Frank, American painter, sculptor, mixed media artist and textile artist (b.1918).

July to December

*22 July - Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist (b.1905).
*31 August - Henry Moore, English artist and sculptor (b.1898).
*12 September - Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (b.1894).
*12 September - Ernst Haas, Austrian photographer (b.1921).
*11 October - Barker Fairley, English-born Canadian painter, writer, and educator (b.1887).

Full date unknown

*Cecil King, Irish abstract-minimalist painter (b.1921).
*Albert Malet, French painter (b.1912).