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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 - 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).
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