1958 in art

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Edwin Pidgeon – Mr Ray Walker
• Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Allied Arts Medal – Louis Archambault

Events

• October 15 – At the Goldschmidt sale at Sotheby's in London, a version of Paul Cézanne's The Boy in the Red Vest sells at a new record price for a painting at auction.
• M. C. Escher publishes his illustrated book The Regular Division of the Plane
• Robert Frank publishes his photographic essay The Americans (in Paris)
• Mark Rothko completes forty paintings, the "Seagram murals" (including Black on Maroon), for The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York but withdraws from the commission before they are hung there

Exhibitions

• Jean Arp retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City
• Yves Klein, La spécialisation de la sensibilité à l’état matière première en sensibilité picturale stabilisée, Le Vide ("The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State into Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility, The Void"), Iris Clert Gallery, Paris.
• Constructivist Design at the Galerie Lambert Weyl, Paris

Works

• Paul Cadmus – Night in Bologna
• M. C. Escher – Belvedere (lithograph)
• Jasper Johns – Three Flags
• Morris Louis – Russet
• René Magritte – The Listening Room (second version)
• S. H. Raza – Paysage
• Emil Schumacher – Cadmium
• David Wynne – Teamwork (sculpture)

Births

• 4 May – Keith Haring, American artist and social activist (d.1990).
• 8 September – Reiko Terashima, Japanese manga artist and illustrator.
• 5 December – Julio Galán, Mexican artist (d.2006).

Deaths

• January 28 – Ferenc Helbing, painter and lithographer
• January 30 – Jean Crotti, painter (b. 1878)
• February 13 – Georges Rouault, Fauvist and Expressionist painter and stained glass artist (b. 1871)
• February 16 – Situ Qiao, painter (b. 1902)
• February 26 – Yokoyama Taikan, painter
• March 1 – Giacomo Balla, painter (b. 1871)
• April 11 – Konstantin Yuon, painter and theatre designer (b. 1875)
• May 11 – Lucien Lelong, fashion designer
• August 12 – André Bauchant, painter (b. 1873)
• August 22 – Ted Sears, animator
• August 23 – Marlow Moss, Constructivist artist
• August 24 – Paul Henry, Irish painter (b. 1876)
• September 15 – Stephen Bone, English painter (b. 1904)
• October 11 – Maurice de Vlaminck, Fauvist painter
• November 17 – Frank Cadogan Cowper, painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
• November 30 – George Hubert Wilkins, photographer
• date unknown
  • Claire McCardell, fashion designer
  • Viktor Jansson, sculptor (b. 1886)

See also

• 1958 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union