1971 in art

• 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) ==References==