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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.
- 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.[1]
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Guy Warren – Flugelman with Wingman
- John Moores Painting Prize - Bruce McLean for "Oriental Garden Kyoto[2]
- 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)[3]
- 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
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