# 1971 in art

Events from the year 1971 in art.

## Events

* July 22 – The Lady of Baza Iberian sculpture (4th century BCE) is discovered.
* October 24 – English painter Francis Bacon's lover, George Dyer, commits suicide two days before the opening of the artist's retrospective at Paris's Grand Palais; Bacon will paint The Black Triptychs in his memory.
* Construction of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris begins.
* New Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, opens.

## Awards

* Archibald Prize: Clifton Pugh – Sir John McEwen

## Works

* Chris Burden - Shoot
* Abram Games – Stockwell tile motif on London Underground's Victoria line
* Hans Haacke – Real Time Social System
* David Hockney
** Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
** Portrait of Sir David Webster
* Helen Journeay – Dawn (sculpture, Houston, Texas)
* Nabil Kanso – Place des Martyres (paintings) (1971 through 1974)
* Fritz Koenig – Great Spherical Caryatid ("The Sphere", for World Trade Center, New York City)
* John Raimondi – Cage
* Lucas Samaras - Stiff Box 12
* Peter Sedgely – Pimlico tile motif on London Underground's Victoria line
* George Smith – Vauxhall tile motif on London Underground's Victoria line
* Kaapa Tjampitjinpa – Gulgardi
* Hans Unger – Brixton tile motif on London Underground's Victoria line
* Francisco Zúñiga – Mother and Daughter Seated (bronze, San Diego)

## Exhibitions

* August 22 until September 29 - The De Luxe Show curated by Peter Bradley at the De Luxe movie theater in Houston, Texas sponsored by the Menil Foundation.

## Births

* January 4 – Junichi Kakizaki, Japanese floral artist and sculptor
* May 9 – Nicolas Ghesquière, French fashion designer
* June 1 – Miguel Calderón, Mexican visual artist and performer
* June 13 - Joshua Davis, American visual artist and designer
* September 2 – Arnold Arre, Filipino comic book writer and artist
* September 7 – Sirpa Masalin, Finnish sculptor
* September 13 – Stella McCartney, English fashion designer
* October 1 – Stéphane Breitwieser, French art thief
* October 3 – Oliver Briceño, Venezuelan oboist
* October 4 – Jeremy Blake, American digital artist and painter (died 2007)
* October 16 – Mirko Reisser (DAIM), German graffiti-artist
* October 27 – Jade Arcade, American composer, musician, and comic book artist
* December 6 – Helena Bulaja, Croatian multimedia artist
* date unknown
** Ahmed Al Safi, Iraqi sculptor
** Amanda Coogan, Irish performance artist
** Bernhard Gál, Austrian composer and artist

## Deaths

* January 10 – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (born 1883)
* January 11 – I. Rice Pereira, American painter, (born 1902)
* February 1 – Raoul Hausmann, Austrian artist and writer (born 1886)
* February 7 – Emy Roeder, German sculptor (born 1890)
* April 1 – Ramiro Arrue, Basque painter, illustrator, and ceramist (born 1892)
* April 3 – Jacques Ochs, French artist, Olympic fencing gold medallist (born 1883)
* April 11 – Marcel Gromaire, French painter (born 1892)
* May 31 – Norman Wilkinson, English marine artist (born 1878)
* June 14 – Gerald Dillon, Irish painter (born 1916)
* July 7 – Ub Iwerks, American animator, cartoonist and special effects technician (born 1901)
* July 10 – George Kenner, German artist (born 1888)
* July 12 – Kiyoshi Yamashita, Japanese outsider artist (born 1922)
* August 27 – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and photojournalist (born 1904)
* October – Charles Walter Simpson, English painter of nature and teacher (born 1885)
* November 9 – Ceri Richards, Welsh painter (born 1903)
* December 6 – Jan Altink, Dutch painter (born 1885)