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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Exhibitions 4 Works 5 Deaths 5.1 January to June 5.2 July to December 5.3 Full date unknown

Events

• 18 March – Twelve paintings, collectively worth from $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers. This is the largest art theft in US history, and the paintings (as of 2007) have not been recovered.
• 6 April – Robert Mapplethorpe's "The Perfect Moment" show of nude and homosexual photographs opens at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Centre, in spite of accusations of indecency by Citizens for Community Values.
• 15 May – Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million.

Awards

Exhibitions

British Art Show at Hayward Gallery includes work by Young British Artists

Works

• Peine Del Viento XVII - Eduardo Chillida
• Meaning and Location - Douglas Gordon
• A Thousand Years - Damien Hirst
• September Defeat - Tadeusz Kantor

Deaths

January to June

• 22 January - Roman Vishniac, Russian-American photographer (b.1897).
• 16 February - Keith Haring, American artist and social activist (b.1958).
• 21 April - Romain de Tirtoff, Russian-born French artist and designer (b.1892).
• 30 June - Jacques Lob, French comic book creator (b.1932).

July to December

• 18 July - Yves Chaland, French cartoonist (b.1957).
• 23 July - Pierre Gandon, French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (b.1899).
• 25 July - Leonard Bahr, American portrait and mural painter (b.1905).
• 14 October - Clifton Pugh, Australian artist (b.1924).
• 26 October - Joan Brown, American figurative painter (b.1938).
• 8 December - Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director (b.1915).
• 23 December - Serge Danot, French animator (b.1931).

Full date unknown

• Daniel du Janerand, French painter (b.1919).
• Fuller Potter, American Abstract expressionist artist (b.1910).

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