2006 in art

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Events

• Rembrandt 400: Series of activities to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt.^[1]
• 31 August – The stolen Edvard Munch paintings The Scream and Madonna are recovered in a police raid in Oslo, Norway.
• 17 November – The Metropolitan Borough of Bury in England sells its L. S. Lowry painting A River Bank (1947) (bought in 1951 for £150) for £1.25 million at a Christie's auction to a private buyer to help fund a £10 million budget deficit.^[2]

Awards

• Archibald Prize – Marcus Wills, The Paul Juraszek Monolith
• Beck's Futures – Matt Stokes, Long After Tonight
• Caldecott Medal – Chris Raschka, The Hello, Goodbye Window
• Hugo Boss Prize- Tacita Dean
• Turner Prize – Tomma Abts
• Wynne prize – John Beard, The Gap

Exhibitions

• The Masterpieces Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Jan 2 – Dec 31, 2006
• All the Rembrandts, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Jan 26 – Dec 31, 2006
• Rembrandt – Caravaggio Van Gogh Museum in cooperation with the Rijksmuseum, Feb 24 – Jun 18, 2006
• A summer with Rembrandt Mauritshuis, The Hague, Jun 26 – Sep 18, 2006
• Rembrandt, the Etcher The Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, Jul 8 – Sep 3, 2006
• Rodin (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 23 Sep 2006—1 Jan 2007)
• Everyone Sang: a view of Siegfried Sassoon and his world by 25 contemporary painters (Francis Kyle Gallery, London, November–December)
• Peter Prendergast retrospective, Oriel Ynys Môn, 14 Jan – 26 Feb 2006 (toured throughout UK)

Works

Deaths

January to March

• 1 January – John Latham, Zambian conceptual artist (b.1921).
• 8 January – Mimmo Rotella, Italian artist and poet (b.1918).
• 14 January – Jim Gary, American sculptor (b.1939).
• 29 January – Nam June Paik, South Korean-born American video artist (b.1932).
• 15 February – Joash Woodrow, English artist (b.1927).
• 23 February – Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (b.1920).
• 4 March
  • David Rose, American animator (b.1910).
  • Edgar Valter, Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books (b.1929).
• 9 March – Jean Leymarie, French art historian (b.1919).
• 25 March – Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish photographer (b.1950).
• 27 March – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b.1925).
• 28 March – Pro Hart, Australian painter (b.1928).

April to June

• 5 April – Allan Kaprow, American painter, assemblagist and art theorist (b.1927).
• 23 April – Isaac Witkin, South African sculptor (b.1936).
• 3 May – Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor and poet (b.1921).
• 8 May – Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (b.1938).
• 9 May – Edouard Jaguer, French poet and art critic (b.1924).
• 27 May – Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (b.1928).

July to December

• 8 July – Catherine Leroy, French photographer (b.1945).
• 15 July – Andrée Ruellan, American painter (b.1905).
• 28 July – Richard Mock, American painter, sculptor and cartoonist (b.1944).
• 1 August – Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b.1965).
• 4 August – Julio Galán, Mexican artist (b.1958).
• 20 August – Joe Rosenthal, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (b.1911).
• 26 August – Vladimir Tretchikoff, Russian artist (b.1913).
• 1 September – Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b.1918).
• 17 October – Marcia Tucker, American museum curator (b.1940).
• 26 November – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b.1943).
• 6 December – Robert Rosenblum, American Art Historian (b.1927).
• 16 December – Larry Zox, American painter and printmaker (b.1937).
• 18 December – Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (b.1905).

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