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Contents 1 Events 1.1 Full date unknown 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Deaths 4.1 January to June 4.2 July to December

[edit] Events

• 10 July - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet.

[edit] Full date unknown

• Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art opens to the public.
• A sculpture by Henri Matisse, Reclining Nude I (Dawn), is sold for US$ 9.2 million, a record for a Matisse sculpture.

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize - Cherry Hood, Simon Tedeschi Unplugged
• Beck's Futures - Toby Paterson
• Turner Prize - Keith Tyson
• Wynne Prize - Angus Nivision, Remembering Rain

[edit] Works

• Anish Kapoor - Marsyas (Tate Modern)

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January to June

• 30 January - Inge Morath, Austrian photographer (b.1923).
• 12 March - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (b.1923).
• 22 May - Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, painter, and film maker (b.1930).
• 12 June - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b.1922).

[edit] July to December

• 8 July - Ward Kimball, American Academy Award-winning animator (b.1914).
• 13 July - Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian photographer (b.1908).
• 17 July - George Rickey, American kinetic sculptor (b.1907).
• 22 August - Richard Lippold, American sculptor (b.1915).
• 23 November - Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b.1911).
• 9 December - Ian Hornak, American painter and draughtsman (b.1944).
• 9 December - Stan Rice, American poet and artist (b.1942).
• 26 December - Herb Ritts, American photographer (b.1952).