1971 in art

Events

• July 22 – The Lady of Baza Iberian sculpture (4th century BCE) is discovered.
• October 24 – English painter Francis Bacon's lover, George Dyer, commits suicide two days before the opening of the artist's retrospective at Paris's Grand Palais; Bacon will paint The Black Triptychs in his memory.
• Construction of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris begins.
• New Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, opens.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Clifton Pugh – Sir John McEwen

Works

• Hans Haacke – Real Time Social System
• David Hockney – Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
• Helen Journeay – Dawn (sculpture, Houston, Texas)
• Nabil Kanso – Place des Martyres (paintings) (1971 through 1974)
• Fritz Koenig – Great Spherical Caryatid ("The Sphere", for World Trade Center, New York City)
• John Raimondi – Cage
• Kaapa Tjampitjinpa – Gulgardi
• Francisco Zúñiga – Mother and Daughter Seated (bronze, San Diego)

Exhibitions

• August 22 until September 29 - The "De Luxe Show" curated by Peter Bradley at the De Luxe movie theater in Houston, Texas sponsored by the Menil Foundation.^[1]

Births

• May 9 – Nicolas Ghesquière, French fashion designer
• June 1 – Miguel Calderón, Mexican visual artist and performer
• September 2 – Arnold Arre, Filipino comic book writer and artist
• September 7 – Sirpa Masalin, Finnish sculptor
• September 13 – Stella McCartney, English fashion designer
• October 1 – Stéphane Breitwieser, French art thief
• October 3 – Oliver Briceño, Venezuelan oboist
• October 4 – Jeremy Blake, American digital artist and painter (died 2007)
• October 27 – Jade Arcade, American composer, musician and comic book artist
• date unknown
  • Ahmed Al Safi, Iraqi sculptor
  • Amanda Coogan, Irish performance artist
  • Bernhard Gál, Austrian composer and artist

Deaths

• January 10 – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (born 1883)
• January 11 – I. Rice Pereira, American painter, (born 1902)
• February 7 – Emy Roeder, German sculptor (born 1890)
• April 3 – Jacques Ochs, French artist, Olympic fencing gold medallist (born 1883)
• April 11 – Marcel Gromaire, French painter (born 1892)
• May 31 – Norman Wilkinson, English marine artist (born 1878)
• June 14 – Gerald Dillon, Irish painter (born 1916)
• July 7 – Ub Iwerks, American animator, cartoonist and special effects technician (born 1901)
• July 12 – Kiyoshi Yamashita, Japanese outsider artist (born 1922)
• August 27 – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and photojournalist (born 1904)
• November 9 – Ceri Richards, Welsh painter (born 1903)
• December 6 – Jan Altink, Dutch painter (born 1885)

References

See also

• 1971 in fine arts of the Soviet Union