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. October 17 – A fire at the Huntington Library (California) destroys Joshua Reynolds's 1777 portrait of Mrs. Edwin Lascelles.
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 Inuk 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) unknown dates Ovartaci, Danish outsider artist (b. 1894) Antonio Rodríguez Luna, Spanish painter (b. 1910)
See also 1985 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
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