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    • Source: 1985 in art

      • Events from the year 1985 in art.


      Events


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


      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 – 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 Inuit 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

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