1991 in art

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Events

• 14 April – In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.
• Opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
• Michael De Caso invents Rectoversion.

Exhibitions

• Damien Hirst solo exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Dance

• May – First performance of Candoco Dance Company

Awards

• Turner Prize – Anish Kapoor

Works

• Las niñas en la alborada – Félix Arauz
• The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living – Damien Hirst
• Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purposes of Understanding – Damien Hirst
• Self – Marc Quinn
• Field (sculpture) – Antony Gormley

Deaths

January to June

• 7 February – Jean-Paul Mousseau, Canadian artist (b. 1927).
• 13 February – Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900).
• 15 March - Vladimir Seleznev, Russian painter (b. 1928).
• 29 March – Guy Bourdin, French photographer (b. 1928).
• 10 June – Jean Bruller, French writer and illustrator (b. 1902).

July to December

• 16 July – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1915).
• 3 August - Boris Ugarov, Russian painter, a last President of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (b. 1922).
• 30 August – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925).
• 5 September - Alexander Pushnin, Russian painter and art educator (b. 1921).
• 14 September – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer and author (b. 1910).
• 27 October – Pyke Koch, Dutch painter (b. 1901).
• 7 November – Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920).
• 11 November - Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Russian painter and theater artist (b. 1915).
• 18 November – Reg Parlett, English comics artist (b. 1904).
• 21 November – Joseph Delaney, American painter (b. 1904).
• 9 December – Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist (b. 1927).
• 10 December – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American artist (b. 1901).

See also

• 1991 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union