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1979 in art
Summary
Events from the year
1979 in art
.
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(
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)
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Events
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October 25
–
Frederic Edwin Church
's 1861 painting
The Icebergs
sells for US$2.5 million at
Sotheby's
New York, the third-highest amount paid for any painting at auction at this date.
[1]
November 15
– Art historian and former
Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures
Anthony Blunt
's role as one of the '
Cambridge Five
'
double agents
for the
Soviet
NKVD
during
World War II
is revealed by
Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher
in the
House of Commons of the United Kingdom
.
[2]
The
Xing xing
("The Stars Group") of 20 avant-garde Chinese artists (including Ma Desheng, Wang Keping,
Huang Rui
,
Li Shuang
,
Qu Leilei
,
Ah Cheng
and
Ai Weiwei
) stage an illegal exhibition outside the
National Art Museum of China
in
Beijing
.
The
Bauhaus Archive
, designed by
Alexander Cvijanović
with Hans Bandel after
Walter Gropius
, is completed in
West Berlin
, Germany.
Edward Delaney
's statue of
Wolfe Tone
in
Dublin
is destroyed by terrorists.
Awards
edit
Archibald Prize
:
Wes Walters
–
Portrait of
Phillip Adams
Works
edit
Michael Andrews
–
Melanie and Me Swimming
Judy Chicago
–
The Dinner Party
(collaborative installation, completed)
Paul Delvaux
–
The Road to Rome
(painting)
Jenny Holzer
–
Truisms
Lee Kelly
– sculptures (Portland, Oregon)
Elkhorn
Nash
Jack Mackie and Charles Greening –
Dancer's Series: Steps
(bronze, Seattle)
Joan Mitchell
La Vie en Rose
[3]
Salut Tom
[4]
Andrzej Pitynski
–
The Partisans
(aluminum sculpture)
Enzo Plazzotta
–
Attitude II (
Margot Fonteyn
)
John Rogers –
118 Modules
(sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
Michael Snow
–
Flight Stop
(sculpture,
Toronto Eaton Centre
)
Don Wilson –
Holon
(sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
Exhibitions
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April 22
to
June 10
–
Special Projects (Scott Belville. John Boone.
Andrea Callard
. Katherine Carter. Ian Crofts,
Lauren Ewing
, Heide Fasnicht,
Betty Goodwin
, Norman Hasselriis, Alan Herman, Jeff (Jeff Russell), and
Elaine Reichek
)
at
PS1
in
Queens, New York
.
[5]
Births
edit
July 25
–
Ahmed Mater
, Saudi artist
date unknown
Aideen Barry
, Irish multimedia and performance artist
Éric Bourdon
, French painter and writer
Elise Fouin
, French
designer
Deaths
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January 11
–
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
, German-born French
Art dealer
(born
1884
)
February 3
–
Aaron Douglas
, American
painter
(born
1898
)
February 7
–
Charles Tunnicliffe
, British wildlife painter (born
1901
)
March 20
–
Jean Charlot
,
French
painter and illustrator (born 1898)
April 5
–
Eugène Gabritschevsky
, Russian
biologist
and
artist
(born
1893
)
June 23
–
Reynolds Stone
,
English
wood engraver (born
1909
)
June 25
Dave Fleischer
,
Austrian American
animator
,
film director
, and
film producer
(born
1894
)
Philippe Halsman
,
Latvian American
portrait photographer (born
1906
)
July 13
–
Ludwig Merwart
,
Austrian
painter and
graphic artist
(born
1913
)
August 20
–
Christian Dotremont
, Belgian painter and poet (born
1922
)
August 29
–
Ivon Hitchens
, English painter (born 1893)
September 17
–
Paul Maze
, French-born English Post-Impressionist painter (born
1887
)
November 8
–
Edward Ardizzone
, British writer and illustrator (born
1900
)
November 20
–
Tyra Lundgren
, Swedish painter, ceramist, glass and textile designer and writer on art (born
1897
)
December 5
–
Sonia Delaunay
,
Ukrainian
-French artist (born
1885
)
December 23
–
Peggy Guggenheim
, American-born
art
collector (born 1898)
December 26
–
Karl Hubbuch
, German painter, printmaker and draughtsman (born
1891
)
date unknown
Russell Brockbank
, Canadian-born
cartoonist
(born
1913
)
Sheila Fell
, English painter (born
1931
)
Awards
edit
See also
edit
1979 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
edit
^
Harvey, Eleanor Jones
(2002).
The Voyage of The Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece
.
Dallas Museum of Art
.
ISBN
978-0-300-09536-4
.
^
Tendler, Stewart; Bradley, Ian (16 November 1979). "Professor Blunt named as spy".
The Times
. No. 60476. London. p. 1.
^
"
"La Vie en Rose" 1979". Met Museum
. Retrieved
10 November
2022
.
^
"Sensing Joan Mitchell". 15 May 2022.
^
"Special Projects (Spring 1979) | MoMA".