1992 in art

The year 1992 in art involved some significant events and new works.

List of years in art

Events

16 March - British fashion designer Alexander McQueen shows his first collection, partly inspired by The Silence of the Lambs (film).
12 October – Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid is opened to the public as a gallery for the private art collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza family.
31 October – Kunsthal in Rotterdam, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is opened as a gallery for modern art.[1]

Awards

Archibald Prize: – Bryan Westwood – The Prime Minister (Paul Keating)
Turner Prize: – Grenville Davey

Works

Magdalena Abakanowicz – bronzes
- Becalmed Beings
- Puellae
Banksy – First graffiti art (in Bristol)[2]
Bust of Bernardo O'Higgins (Houston) (sculpture, Texas)
Muriel Castanis – Ideals (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
Grenville Davey – Hal
Anya Gallaccio – Red on Green
Gibson/Ashbaugh – Agrippa (a book of the dead)
Damien Hirst – Pharmacy (installation)
Soraida Martinez – Verdadism
Simon Patterson – The Great Bear (lithograph)
George Rickey – Cluster of Four Cubes (sculpture, Washington, D.C.)
James Rosenquist – Time Dust
Brad Rude – A Donkey, 3 Rocks, and a Bird. (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
George Segal – Street Crossing (sculpture)
Jack Vettriano – The Singing Butler
Christopher Wool - "If You"[3]

Exhibitions

"Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.[4]
Edward Delaney retrospective – Royal Hibernian Academy.
Richard Hamilton retrospective – Tate Gallery.
Sol LeWitt Drawings 1958–1992 – Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
Young British Artists – Saatchi Gallery, London (featuring Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living).

Gifts (Bequests)

Herbert and Dorothy Vogel collection given to National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.[5]

Births

29 January – George Pocheptsov, American painter

Deaths

January to June

6 January – Richard Mortensen, Danish painter and educator (b. 1910)
19 February – Lena Gurr, American painter and lithographer (b. 1897).
4 March – Art Babbitt, American animator (b. 1907).
6 March – Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese-French abstract painter (b. 1908).
11 April – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (b. 1920).
28 April – Francis Bacon, Irish-born British figurative painter (b. 1909).
13 May – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (b. 1909).
6 June – Richard Eurich, English marine painter (b. 1903).
15 June – Brett Whiteley, Australian avant-garde artist (b. 1939).
18 June – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896).
28 June – John Piper, English landscape painter and designer (b. 1903).
30 June – André Hébuterne, French painter (b. 1894).
6 July – Richard Eurich, English sea- and landscape painter (b. 1903).

July to December

7 September – EQ Nicholson, English textile designer and painter (b.1908).
25 September – César Manrique, Spanish artist and architect (b. 1919)[6]
30 October – Joan Mitchell, American Abstract Expressionist painter (b. 1925).
11 November – Giulio Carlo Argan, Italian art historian and politician (b. 1909).
27 November – Ivan Generalić, Croatian naïve art painter (b. 1914)
30 November - Bernard Lefebvre, French photographer (b. 1906)[7]
23 December – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (b. 1934).
24 December – Peyo, Belgian comics artist (b. 1928).

References

Kunsthal official website.
Wright, Steve; Jones, Richard; Wyatt, Trevor (2007). Banksy's Bristol: Home Sweet Home. Bath: Tangent Books. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-906477-00-4.
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/christopher-wool-b-1955-if-you-5792515-details.aspx
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/20/arts/art-view-circa-1492-an-enormous-magnificent-muddle.html
"The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection". National Gallery of Art. 2008. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
Biography from Cesar Manrique official website
Bernard Lefebvre on the site of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (fr)

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