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Contents |
Events
- Charles Saatchi's collection opens to the public, arousing interest in Neo-expressionism
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Guy Warren - Flugelman with Wingman
- Turner Prize - Howard Hodgkin
- Shortlisted were: Terry Atkinson, Tony Cragg, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Milena Kalinovska and John Walker.
Works
- Wayne Thiebaud - Sunset Streets
- Sally Robinson - Kakadu, Australian, Screen Print
Births
Deaths
- 28 March - Marc Chagall, Russian-Belarusian-French painter (b.1887).
- 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).
- 28 September - André Kertész, Hungarian-born photographer (b.1894).
Full date unknown
- Richard Amsel, American illustrator and graphic designer (b.1947).
- Grace Albee, American printmaker (b.1890).