1957 in art

April 19 – Picasso is introduced by American photographer David Douglas Duncan to his dachshund Lump who becomes Picasso's companion and subject in paintings.^[1]
May 17 – First known instance of a chimpanzee (Congo) painting.^[2] His mentor Desmond Morris organises an exhibition of chimpanzee art at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
Hungarian National Gallery opens in Buda Castle, Budapest.
Gruppe SPUR, an artistic collaboration, is founded in Germany.
Chicago's Lithuanian community opens the Čiurlionis Art Gallery.
John Lennon enrols at Liverpool College of Art where he will meet Stuart Sutcliffe.
Man Ray's Object to Be Destroyed (1923) is destroyed
Three new neo-grotesque sans-serif typefaces are released: Folio (designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum), Neue Haas Grotesk (designed by Max Miedinger) and Univers (designed by Adrian Frutiger); all will be influential in the International Typographic Style of graphic design.

Works

January 1 – Óscar Domínguez, Spanish painter (b. 1906)
January 13? – Saishū Onoe, Japanese poet and calligrapher (b. 1876)
January 17 – Jože Plečnik, Slovene architect (b. 1872)
January 20 – John Minton, English painter and illustrator (suicide) (b. 1917)
February 4 – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and caricaturist (b. 1904)
February 11 – Gwen Raverat, English wood engraver (b. 1885)
February 14 – Emanuel Hahn, German Canadian sculptor (b. 1881)
March 16 – Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-born sculptor (b. 1876)
March 28 – Jack Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1871)
March 23 – Andrzej Wróblewski, Polish figurative painter (mountaineering accident) (b. 1927)
May 14 – Marie Vassilieff, Russian-born painter (b. 1884)^[4]
May 18 – Bruce Rogers, American book designer and typographer (b. 1870)
June 12 – Mario Urteaga Alvarado, Peruvian painter (b. 1875)
July 7 – Kiyoshi Koishi, Japanese photographer (b. 1908)
August 2 – Lasar Segall, Lithuanian-born Brazilian Jewish painter (b. 1891)
August 15 – C. T. Loo, Chinese-born art dealer (b. 1880)
August 19 – David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
September 13 – Adam Emory Albright, American painter of figures in landscapes (b. 1862)
September 26 – Pompeo Coppini, Italian American sculptor (b. 1870)
October 11 – René Auberjonois, Swiss Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1872)
October 15 – Henry van de Velde, Belgian-born painter, architect and designer, a founder of the Art Nouveau movement (b. 1863)
October 24 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
November 2 – Mahonri Young, American sculptor (d. 1877)
November 20 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-born graphic artist (b. 1875)
November 24 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
November 30 – Paja Jovanović, a leading Serbian Realist painter (along with Đorđe Krstić and Uroš Predić) (b. 1859)
December 14 – Josef Lada, Czech illustrator and painter (b. 1887)
December 15 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German propaganda photographer (b. 1885)

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