1978 in art
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- 27 June – Stitching the Standard by Edmund Leighton is sold at Sotheby's in Belgravia to a private collector.[1]
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Brett Whiteley – Art, Life and the other thing
- John Moores Painting Prize - Noel Forster for "A painting in six stages with a silk triangle"[2]
Works
- Zdzisław Beksiński – AA78[citation needed]
- Christo and Jeanne Claude - "Wrapped Walk Ways" in Loose Park in Kansas City, Missouri[3]
- Dan Flavin – untitled (to the real Dan Hill)
- Helen Frankenthaler – Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
- David Gentleman – "Eleanor cross" mural for Charing Cross tube station (London)
- Jack Goldstein – The Jump[4]
- Michael Heizer – Isolated Mass/Circumflex (Number 2) (land art, Houston, Texas)
- Bryan Hunt – Big Twist (bronze, Houston, Texas)
- Nabil Kanso – Hiroshima Nagasaki One-Minute
- Liz Leyh – Concrete Cows (Milton Keynes)
- Odd Nerdrum – The Murder of Andreas Baader
- Dennis Oppenheim – Cobalt Vectors – An Invasion
- Mikhail Savitsky – Partisan Madonna of Minsk
Births
- 19 September – Mykhailo Kolodko, Ukrainian/Hungarian sculptor[citation needed]