1986 in art

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Events

19 August – Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting Weeping Woman is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, Australia.
Opening of the Musée d'Orsay (formerly the Gare d'Orsay) in Paris.

January – May

15 April Amy Louise Nettleton. British Installation and Sculpture Artist

6 March – Georgia O'Keeffe American artist (b. 1887).
26 April – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899).
11 May – Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American, art collector, philanthropist and chairman of Philadelphia Art Museum (b. 1910).
31 May – Jane Frank, American painter, sculptor, mixed media artist and textile artist (b. 1918).

7 April – Cecil King, Irish abstract-minimalist painter (b. 1921)
22 July – Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist (b. 1905).
31 August – Henry Moore, English artist and sculptor (b. 1898)
9 September – Albert Malet, French painter (b. 1912)
12 September
- Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (b. 1894).
- Ernst Haas, Austrian photographer (b. 1921).
11 October – Barker Fairley, English-born Canadian painter, writer, and educator (b. 1887).