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List Of Archibald Prize 1986 Finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 1986 Archibald Prize for portraiture, listed by Artist and ''Title.'' As the images are copyright, an external link to an image has been listed where available. See also * Previous year: List of Archibald Prize 1985 finalists * Next year: List of Archibald Prize 1987 finalists * List of Archibald Prize winners * Lists of Archibald Prize finalists References {{Archibald Prize 1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ... Archibald Archibald Archibald Prize 1986 Archibald Prize 1986 ...
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Archibald Prize
The Archibald Prize is an Australian portraiture art prize for painting, generally seen as the most prestigious portrait prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after the receipt of a bequest from J. F. Archibald, J. F. Archibald, the editor of ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin'' who died in 1919. It is administered by the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and awarded for "the best portrait, preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics, painted by an artist resident in Australia during the twelve months preceding the date fixed by the trustees for sending in the pictures". The Archibald Prize has been awarded annually since 1921 (with two exceptions) and since July 2015 the prize has been Australian dollar, AU$100,000. Winners *List of Archibald Prize winners Prize money *1921 – £400 *1941 – £443 / 13 / 4 *1942 – £441 / 11 / 11 *1951 – £500 *2006 – $35,000 *2008 – $50,00 ...
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Nigel Thomson
Nigel Thomson (1945–1999) was an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize twice. Known for satirical paintings of Australian society. He studied at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and later taught artistic composition at that institution. He was art tutor at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He won the Archibald with ''Chandler Coventry'' in 1983, and ''Barbara Blackman'' in 1997. Thomson's painting of Patrick White's long-term partner, Manoly Lascaris was rejected from the 1995 Archibald and hung in the Salon des Refusés. He won the Sulman Prize in 1983 with ''Marat, The Unsophisticated will be Shocked by the Depiction of your Death: or, the Artist Answers His Critics''. This painting was based on Jacques-Louis David's famous painting ''Death of Marat'' showing Jean-Paul Marat dead in a bathtub. He jointly won the Sulman Prize in 1986 along with Wendy Sharpe Wendy Sharpe (born 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Syd ...
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1986 Awards
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. *January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. *January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. *January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. *January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of ...
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