1986 in art

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Events from the year 1986 in art.

## Events

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* 21 May – Eighteen Old Master paintings from the Beit collection are stolen from Russborough House in Ireland by Martin "The General" Cahill, the second major art theft from this location.
* 19 August – Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting Weeping Woman is found in a locker at Spencer Street station in Melbourne, Australia.
* Opening of the Musée d'Orsay (formerly the Gare d'Orsay) in Paris.

## Awards

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* Archibald Prize – Davida Allen, Dr John Arthur McKelvey Shera
* Sulman Prize – Wendy Sharpe, Black Sun – Morning and Night
* Turner Prize – Gilbert and George
* Shortlisted: Art & Language, Victor Burgin, Derek Jarman, Stephen McKenna and Bill Woodrow

## Exhibitions

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* 23 November – The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890–1985 opens at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[1][2] Organized by Maurice Tuchman, this is the first public showing of the abstract art of Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint (died 1944).

## Works

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See also: Category:1986 paintings and Category:1986 sculptures

* David Adickes – Cornet (sculpture, Galveston, Texas)
* Yaacov Agam \- Fire and Water Fountain at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, Israel (Dedicated)
* Ruth Asawa – Aurora (sculpture, San Francisco)
* John Buckley – The Headington Shark (Untitled 1986; painted fibreglass sculpture)
* Daniel Buren \- Les Deux Plateaux in the inner courtyard (Cour d'Honneur) of the Palais Royal in Paris, France
* John Burgee and Philip Johnson – Clarke Memorial Fountain (Notre Dame, Indiana)
* Wayne Chabre – Einstein Gargoyle (sculpture, Eugene, Oregon)
* John Doubleday – Royal Marines Commando Memorial (Lympstone, England)
* Georgia Gerber – Animals in Pools (sculptures, Portland, Oregon)
* Robert Graham \- Monument to Joe Louis installed at Hart Plaza in Detroit, Michigan, United  States
* David Hockney – Pearblossom Highway #2 (photocollage)
* Ellsworth Kelly – Houston Triptych (bronze sculpture, Houston, Texas)
* Igor Mitoraj – Heros de Lumiere
* Odd Nerdrum – Return of the Sun
* Kantilal B. Patel – Mohandas Gandhi (sculpture, New York City)
* Andy Warhol
* Camouflage
* Map of Eastern U.S.S.R. Missile Bases
* The Last Supper (Series completed )
* Andrew Wyeth – Flood Plain
* Jamie Wyeth – Kalounna in Frogtown (Terra Foundation for American Art)
* Yu Tang Wang and Sun Chau – Chinatown Gateway (structure, Portland, Oregon)

## Births

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* 15 April – Amy Louise Nettleton, British installation and sculpture artist.
* Oscar Murillo, Colombian-born artist.

## Deaths

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### January to June

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* 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 Museum of Art (b. 1910).
* 31 May – Jane Frank, American painter, sculptor, mixed media artist and textile artist (b. 1918).
* 9 June – Ilona Harima, Finnish painter (b. 1911).

### July to December

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* 7 April – Cecil King, Irish abstract-minimalist painter (b. 1921).
* 30 June – Guan Zilan, Chinese avant-garde painter (b. 1903)
* 22 July – Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist (b. 1905).
* 31 August – Henry Moore, English artist and sculptor (b. 1898).
* 9 September – Albert Malet, French painter (b. 1912).
* 12 September
* Ernst Haas, Austrian photographer (b. 1921).
* Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (b. 1894).
* 18 September – Corita Kent, American nun and silkscreen printer (b. 1918).
* 11 October – Barker Fairley, English-born Canadian painter, writer, and educator (b. 1887).
* 23 October – Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, British intelligence officer, mountaineer and painter (b.1893).

### Undated

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* Marko Čelebonović, Serbian painter (b. 1902).
* Guan Liang, Chinese artist (b. 1900).

## See also

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* 1986 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

## References

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1. ^ The Spiritual in Art, Abstract Painting 1890-1985. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 1986. ISBN 0-89659-669-9.
2. ^ "Art view: How the spiritual infused the abstract". The New York Times. 1986-12-21.