1954 in art

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Events

• November 18 – Publication of Yves Peintures (in Madrid), the first public showing of Yves Klein's work.
• December – Pablo Picasso begins painting his Les Femmes d'Alger ("The Women of Algiers") series in homage to Delacroix's 1834 painting of the same name and to the memory of Matisse.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele – Rt Hon R G Menzies, PC, CH, QC, MP
• New Year Honours – Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire: Jacob Epstein

Exhibitions

• Augustus John at the Royal Academy

Works

See also: Category:1954 sculptures

• Francis Bacon – Figure with Meat (Art Institute of Chicago)
• John Brack – The Bar (National Gallery of Victoria)
• Terence Cuneo
  • The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Westminster Abbey, 2nd June 1953
  • The Coronation Luncheon for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in Guildhall, 12th June 1953
• Salvador Dalí
  • Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
  • The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
  • Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity
• Franz Kline – Painting No 2 (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• Willem de Kooning – Marilyn Monroe
• Fernand Léger – Stained-glass window at the University City of Caracas
• Pablo Picasso – Sylvette
• Norman Rockwell – Breaking Home Ties
• Graham Sutherland – Portrait of Winston Churchill (destroyed)
• Victor Vasarely – Hommage á Malévitch (ceramic wall) (University City of Caracas)

Births

• January 19 – Cindy Sherman, artist, photographer
• February 6 – George Sherwood, sculptor
• March 23 – Kenneth Cole, fashion designer
• September 12 – Robert Gober, sculptor

Deaths

• January 26 – Carl Eldh, Swedish painter and sculptor (b. 1873)
• February 21 – Augustin Lesage, French outsider artist (b. 1876)
• March 13 – César Klein, German painter and designer (b. 1876)
• May 5 – Henri Laurens, sculptor (b. 1885)
• May 16 – Werner Bischof, photographer (b. 1916)
• May 25 – Robert Capa, photographer (b. 1913)
• June 9 – Alain LeRoy Locke, patron of the arts (b. 1886)
• July – Gaetano Orsolini, sculptor, medallist and engraver (b. 1884)
• July 3 – Reginald Marsh, painter (b. 1898)
• July 13 – Frida Kahlo, painter (b. 1907)
• August 28 – Leonid Sherwood, sculptor (b. 1871)
• September 8
  • André Derain, painter and illustrator (b. 1880)
  • Sigvald Asbjørnsen, sculptor (b. 1867)
• October 18 – Einar Jónsson, sculptor (b. 1874)
• November 3 – Henri Matisse, painter, sculptor, printmaker (b. 1869)
• December 23 – René Iché, sculptor (b. 1897)

See also

• 1954 in fine arts of the Soviet Union