Events from the year 1991 in art.
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- 16 July – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1915).
- 3 August – Boris Ugarov, Russian painter, a last President of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (b. 1922).
- 30 August – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925).
- 5 September
- 14 September – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer and author (b. 1910).
- 18 September - Leland Bell, American painter (b. 1922).
- 24 September – Dr. Seuss, American illustrator (b. 1904).
- 8 October – David Budd, American abstract painter (b. 1927)
- 27 October – Pyke Koch, Dutch painter (b. 1901).
- 7 November – Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920).
- 11 November – Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Russian painter and theater artist (b. 1915).
- 18 November – Reg Parlett, English comics artist (b. 1904).
- 21 November – Joseph Delaney, American painter (b. 1904).
- 8 December - Bernice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898).
- 9 December – Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist (b. 1927).
- 10 December – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American artist (b. 1901).
- 12 December - Moshe Castel, Israeli painter (b. 1909).
False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes, Thomas Hoving, Simon & Schuster, 1996 ISBN 0-684-83148-1