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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown 5.2 Awards

[edit] Events

• Edward Delaney's statue of Wolfe Tone in Dublin is destroyed by terrorists.

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: Wes Walters - Portrait of Phillip Adams

[edit] Works

• Jenny Holzer - Truisms
• Enzo Plazzotta - Attitude II (Margot Fonteyn)

[edit] Births

• 3 January - Francesco Bellissimo, Italian manga artist.

[edit] Full date unknown

• Aideen Barry, Irish multimedia and performance artist.
• Eric Bourdon, French painter and writer.
• Elise Fouin, French designer.

[edit] Deaths

• 11 January - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-born French Art dealer (b.1884).
• 3 February - Aaron Douglas, American painter (b.1898).
• 5 April - Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (b.1893).
• 25 June - Dave Fleischer, Austrian-American animator, film director, and film producer (b.1894).
• 13 July - Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (b.1913).
• 8 November - Edward Ardizzone, British writer and illustrator (b.1900).
• 23 December - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b.1898).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Russell Brockbank, Canadian-born cartoonist (b.1913).
• Jean Charlot, French painter and illustrator (b.1898).
• Sonia Delaunay, Ukrainian-French artist (b. 1885).

[edit] Awards