In the summer of 1957 Derrick Greaves helped open the exhibition Looking at People at the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, organised by Paul Hogarth with Soviet funding. Greaves, Hogarth and Ruskin Spear cut the ribbon.
Other artists with works on show were Carel Weight, Edward Ardizzone, the printmaker Alistair Grant and the sculptors Betty Rea and George Fullard.