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Overview of the events of 1907 in art
The year 1907 in art involved some significant events.
Events
Exhibitions
1–27 October, Salon d'Automne, Paris. Georges Braque exhibited Viaduc à l'Estaque (a proto-Cubist work), now at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts . Simultaneously, there was a retrospective exhibition of 56 works by Paul Cézanne , as a tribute to the artist who died in 1906.
Works
Picasso , Les Demoiselles d'Avignon cubism .[ 3]
Movements
Exhibitions
First Exhibition of Lithuanian Art, Vilnius
Births
January to June
January 13 – Jon Gnagy , American painter, illustrator and television art instructor (d. 1981 )February 4 – James McIntosh Patrick , Scottish landscape painter (d. 1998 )February 28 – Milton Caniff , American cartoonist (d. 1988 )March 23 – Abidin Dino , Turkish -born painter (d. 1993 )April 23
May 1 – Theodore Roszak , Polish-American sculptor and painter (d. 1981 )May 10 – Lenore Tawney , American fiber artist (d. 2007 )May 22 – Hergé , Belgian comics writer and artist (d. 1983 )June 6 – George Rickey , American kinetic sculptor (d. 2002 )June 10 – Fairfield Porter , American painter (d. 1975 )June 14 – Nicolas Bentley , English author and illustrator (d. 1978 )
July to December
July 1 – Ilya Bolotowsky , painter (d. 1981 )July 6 – Frida Kahlo , Mexican painter (d. 1954 )July 27 – Petar Lubarda , Serbian painter (d. 1974 )August 7 – Albert Kotin , Russian -born American Abstract Expressionist artist (d. 1980 )August 17 – Acee Blue Eagle , painter and muralist (d. 1959 )August 30 – Leonor Fini , surrealist painter (d. 1996 )September 4
September 26 – Anthony Blunt , English art historian (d.1983 )October 5 – Jean Louis , French costume designer (d. 1997 )October 8 – Art Babbitt , American animator (d. 1992 )October 21 – Nikos Engonopoulos , Greek painter and poet (d. 1985 )November 1 – Terence Cuneo , English railway and military painter (d. 1996 )November 4 – Henry Heerup , Danish painter and sculptor (d. 1993 )November 14 – William Steig , American cartoonist , sculptor and author (d. 2003 )November 22 – Dora Maar , French photographer , poet and painter, lover of Pablo Picasso (d. 1997 )November 28 – Charles Alston , American artist , muralist , and teacher (d. 1977 ).
Full date unknown
Deaths
January 8 – Theodoor Verstraete , Belgian rural realist painter and printmaker (born 1850 )February 11 – Christen Dalsgaard , Danish painter (born 1824 )February 14 – Adolf Seel , German painter (born 1829 )March 26 – Ettore Roesler Franz , Italian painter (born 1845 )April 14 – James Clarke Hook , marine and historical painter (born 1819 )May 5 – Şeker Ahmet Paşa , Turkish military painter (born 1841 )May 11 – Edward Kemeys , American sculptor (born 1843 )May 18 – Bernhard Plockhorst , German painter and graphic artist (born 1825 )June 14 – Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo , Italian neo-impressionist painter (born 1868 )July 16 – Théobald Chartran , French propaganda painter (born 1849 )August 3 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens , American Beaux-Arts sculptor (born 1848 )October 4 – Alfredo Keil , Portuguese romantic composer and painter (born 1850 )October 30 – Đorđe Krstić , Serbian Realist painter (born 1851 )November 10 – Alexander Zick , German painter and illustrator (born 1845 )November 21
November 23 – John F. Peto , American trompe-l'œil painter (born 1854 )November 27 – Paul Ritter , German architectural painter (born 1829 )November 28 – Stanisław Wyspiański , Polish dramatist, painter and designer (born 1869 )
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