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Events from the year 1985 in art.

Events

  • Charles Saatchi's collection opens to the public, arousing interest in Neo-expressionism.

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  • Germano Celant publishes Arte Povekira: Storie e protagonisti.
  • Art gallerist Andrew Crispo and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum are involved in a dispute over Constantin Brâncuși's 1912 sculpture "The Muse" which ends in the museum paying $2 million US for the artwork, at the time believed to be the most ever paid for a 20th century sculpture.
  • October 17 – A fire at the Huntington Library (California) destroys Joshua Reynolds's 1777 portrait of Mrs. Edwin Lascelles.

Awards

  • Archibald Prize: Guy Warren – Flugelman with Wingman
  • John Moores Painting Prize - Bruce McLean for "Oriental Garden Kyoto
  • Turner Prize – Howard Hodgkin

:Shortlisted were: Terry Atkinson, Tony Cragg, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Milena Kalinovska and John Walker.

Works

  • Mai Dantsig – And the Saved World Remembers
  • Robyn Denny – Coloured lines at Embankment tube station in London, England
  • Christo and Jeanne Claude - "The Pont Neuf Wrapped" at the Pont Neuf in Paris, France
  • Thomas Morandi – Yankee Champion (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
  • Odd Nerdrum – The Cloud (Skyen)
  • George Rickey – Double L Excentric Gyratory (sculpture)
  • Sally Robinson (Australian) – Kakadu (screen print)
  • Wayne Thiebaud – Sunset Streets
  • Andy Warhol – Reigning Queens series

Births

  • September 24 &ndash; Eric Adjetey Anang, Ghanaian sculptor
  • date unknown
  • Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Jordanian-born artist
  • Helen Marten, English sculptor and installation artist

Deaths

  • 8 January – Grace Morley, American-born curator (b. 1900)
  • 18 January – Anwar Shemza, Pakistan-born British artist and writer (b. 1928)
  • 7 March – Jessie Oonark, Canadian Inuk artist (b. 1906)
  • 28 March – Marc Chagall, Russian-Belarusian-French painter (b. 1887).
  • 21 April – Rudi Gernreich, Austrian American fashion designer (b. 1922).
  • 11 May – Chester Gould, American cartoonist (b. 1900).
  • 12 May – Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (b. 1901).
  • 22 May – Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator (b. 1909).
  • 26 July – Grace Albee, American printmaker (b. 1890).
  • 21 August – David Olère, Polish-born Jewish French painter (b. 1902).
  • 8 September – Ana Mendieta, Cuban American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist
  • 28 September – André Kertész, Hungarian-born photographer (b. 1894).
  • 17 November – Richard Amsel, American illustrator and graphic designer (b. 1947).
  • 8 December – Paul Kelpe, German-born American painter (b. 1902).
  • Ovartaci, Danish outsider artist (b. 1894)
  • Antonio Rodríguez Luna, Spanish painter (b. 1910).

See also

  • 1985 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References