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2019 in art

The year 2019 in art involved various significant events.

Events

  • December – A gardener at the Galleria d'arte moderna Ricci Oddi in Piacenza, Italy stumbles upon the Gustav Klimt painting Portrait of a Lady which had been stolen from the same museum in 1997. It turns out the thieves – one of whom later grants an interview – planted the work back there four years earlier after the statute of limitations had run out on the theft. The picture, which is subsequently authenticated, was painted above an earlier work of a lover who died young. Portrait of a Lady is now valued at upwards of $65 million US. Of the one million plus works of art listed on the Italian theft database it was rated as the second most important following Caravaggio's Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence which was stolen from the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo in 1969.
  • December 7 – The banana in Comedian, an artwork created in an edition of three for the 2019 installation of Art Basel Miami Beach by Maurizio Cattelan, consisting of the aforementioned fruit held to a wall by duct tape (the initial one of which was sold to an unnamed French art collector for US$120,000) is summarily eaten by David Datuna a self-styled performance vigilante who names his piece Hungry Artist and says of the finished work "It was very delicious". Galerie Perrotin, the exhibitor of the work at the art fair, replaces the fruit and states that the work is an "idea".
  • December 10 – Rebecca Salter is elected as the first female President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, taking up office the following month.
  • December 28 – The Picasso painting Bust of a Woman on display at London's Tate Modern is damaged by a visitor.

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