1981 in art

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Events

• 10 September - Picasso's painting Guernica is returned from New York to Madrid.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Eric Smith - Rudy Komon

Works

• Tony Cragg - Britain as Seen from the North
• John Doubleday - Statue of Charlie Chaplin (Leicester Square, London)
• Helmut Newton- Sie kommen! ("They're coming!", photographic diptych; published in French Vogue, November)
• Richard Serra - Tilted Arc, Federal Plaza, New York City (dismantled 1989)

Exhibitions

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Births

• 15 April - Seth Wulsin, American artist.
• 4 November - Paul Tucker, Canadian visual artist and graphic novel and webcomic illustrator.

Deaths

• 19 June - Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (b.1899).
• 29 June - Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (b.1912).
• 8 July - Isaac Soyer Russian-born American painter, (b.1902).
• 7 September - Christy Brown, Irish author, painter and poet (b.1932).
• 12 October - Enzo Plazzotta, Italian-born British sculptor (b.1921).
• 22 November - Corrado Parducci, Italian-American architectural sculptor (b.1900).

Full date unknown

• Art Frahm, American pin-up and advertising artist (b.1907).
• Pinchus Kremegne, Belarusian sculptor, painter and lithographer (b.1890).
• Nano Reid, Irish painter (b.1905).

See also

• 1981 in fine arts of the Soviet Union