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[1]
Exhibitions
- Augustus John at the Royal Academy
Works
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- Francis Bacon – Figure with Meat (Art Institute of Chicago)
- John Brack – The Bar (National Gallery of Victoria)
- Terence Cuneo
- Salvador Dalí
- 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)
Exhibitions
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
References
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