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1991 in art
Summary
Events from the year
1991 in art
.
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Events
edit
14 April
– In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the
Van Gogh Museum
in
Amsterdam
. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.
[1]
25 May
– Opening of the
Irish Museum of Modern Art
in
Dublin
.
9 July
– The Sainsbury Wing of the
National Gallery
in London, designed by
Robert Venturi
and Denise Scott, is opened.
[2]
September – Opening of the
Weserburg
modern art museum in
Bremen
(Germany) as the
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen
.
Publications
edit
The Prince of Wales (now
Charles III
) -
Watercolours
.
Eric Hebborn
,
Drawn to Trouble
[3]
Exhibitions
edit
February 6
until
May 6
-
Albert Bierstadt
, Art & Enterprise
at the
Brooklyn Museum
in
Brooklyn
,
New York
.
[4]
December 13
until February 2, 1992 -
Damien Hirst
solo exhibition at
Institute of Contemporary Arts
.
[5]
Dance
edit
May – First performance of
Candoco Dance Company
Awards
edit
John Moores Painting Prize
- Andrzej Jackowski for "The Beekeeper's son"
[6]
Turner Prize
–
Anish Kapoor
Works
edit
Las niñas en la alborada
–
Félix Aráuz
"
The Umbrellas
" (simultaneous sculptural instillations in California, U.S.A and Japan) -
Christo and Jeanne Claude
Chain Reaction
(sculpture,
Santa Monica, California
) –
Paul Conrad
Field
(multiple figure sculptures in terracotta - first version) –
Antony Gormley
Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purposes of Understanding
–
Damien Hirst
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
– Damien Hirst
Capitalism
(sculpture in Portland, Oregon) – Larry Kirkland
Guardians of the Gate
(bronze, San Francisco) – Miles Metzger
Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View
(installation) –
Cornelia Parker
Tompkins Square Crawl
(performance) -
William Pope.L
[7]
Self
(sculpted self-portrait head in artist's blood - first version) –
Marc Quinn
Host Analog
(sculpture, Portland, Oregon) –
Buster Simpson
Cascade Charley
(fountain, Eugene, Oregon) – Alice Wingwall
Births
edit
Hannah Levy
, American sculptor
[8]
Probable date –
Cartяain
,
English
graffiti
urban artist
.
[9]
Deaths
edit
January to June
edit
3 January
–
Doris Zinkeisen
, British theatrical designer and commercial artist (b.
1898
).
11 January
–
Charles Mozley
, British artist and art teacher (b.
1914
)
[10]
7 February
–
Jean-Paul Mousseau
, Canadian artist (b.
1927
).
13 February
–
Arno Breker
, German sculptor (b.
1900
).
15 March
–
Vladimir Seleznev
, Russian painter (b.
1928
).
29 March
–
Guy Bourdin
, French photographer (b.
1928
).
10 June
–
Jean Bruller
, French writer and
illustrator
(b.
1902
).
July to December
edit
16 July
–
Robert Motherwell
, American
abstract expressionist
painter
and
printmaker
(b.
1915
).
3 August
–
Boris Ugarov
, Russian painter, a last President of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (b.
1922
).
30 August
–
Jean Tinguely
,
Swiss
painter and sculptor (b.
1925
).
5 September
Alexander Pushnin
, Russian painter and art educator (b.
1921
).
Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid
, Turkish abstract artist (b.
1901
).
14 September
–
Russell Lynes
, American
art historian
,
photographer
and author (b.
1910
).
18 September
-
Leland Bell
, American painter (b.
1922
).
24 September
–
Dr. Seuss
, American illustrator (b.
1904
).
8 October
–
David Budd
, American abstract painter (b. 1927)
27 October
–
Pyke Koch
, Dutch painter (b. 1901).
7 November
–
Tom of Finland
, Finnish
fetish artist
(b.
1920
).
11 November
–
Nadezhda Shteinmiller
, Russian painter and theater artist (b.
1915
).
18 November
–
Reg Parlett
, English comics artist (b. 1904).
21 November
–
Joseph Delaney
, American painter (b. 1904).
8 December
-
Bernice Abbott
, American photographer (b.
1898
).
9 December
–
Gisèle Lestrange
, French
graphic artist
(b.
1927
).
10 December
–
Greta Kempton
, Austrian-American artist (b. 1901).
12 December
-
Moshe Castel
, Israeli painter (b. 1909).
See also
edit
1991 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union
References
edit
^
Paul L. Montgomery, "Lost and Found: Huge van Gogh Theft Fails",
The New York Times
, 1991. Retrieved on 2012-01-31.
^
National Gallery official website
^
False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes
, Thomas Hoving, Simon & Schuster, 1996
ISBN
0-684-83148-1
^
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/1163
^
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/damien-hirst-damien-hirst-ica-exhibition-catalogue
^
"Andrzej Jackowski - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums".
Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
. Retrieved
28 November
2018
.
^
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/crawling-through-new-york-city-with-the-artist-pope-l
^
"Hannah Levy".
^
Cartrain. "Cartrain In The National Portrait Gallery".
YouTube
. Retrieved
2009-09-20
.
[
dead YouTube link
]
^
"Obituary - Charles Mozley".
The Independent
. 20 January 1991.