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Events from the year 1954 in art.




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



Francis Bacon
Figure with Meat (Art Institute of Chicago)
Two Figures in the Grass
Thomas Hart Benton – The Kentuckian
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
The Colossus of Rhodes
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity
Jared French - The Rope
Franz Kline – Painting No 2 (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Willem de Kooning – Marilyn Monroe
Fernand Léger – Stained-glass window at University City of Caracas
L. S. Lowry – Piccadilly Gardens
Sergei Orlov and others – Statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, Moscow
Abbott Pattison – Iron Horse (sculpture)
Pablo Picasso – Sylvette
Norman Rockwell – Breaking Home Ties
Mark Rothko – Untitled (Yellow and Blue)
Graham Sutherland – Portrait of Winston Churchill (later destroyed on orders issued by the Prime Minister's wife, Lady Clementine Churchill)
Victor Vasarely – Hommage á Malévitch (ceramic wall at University City of Caracas)




Exhibitions






Births


January 19 – Cindy Sherman, American photographer and artist
February 6 – George Sherwood, American kinetic and landscape sculptor
September 12 – Robert Gober, American sculptor
December 6 - Nicola De Maria, Italian painter
Lubaina Himid, Zanzibar-born British graphic artist




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, French sculptor (b. 1885)
May 16 – Werner Bischof, Swiss photojournalist (b. 1916)
May 25 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
June 9 – Alain LeRoy Locke, American patron of the arts (b. 1886)
July – Gaetano Orsolini, Italian sculptor, medallist and engraver (b. 1884)
July 3 – Reginald Marsh, American painter (b. 1898)
July 13 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
August 28 – Leonid Sherwood, Russian sculptor (b. 1871)
September 8
Sigvald Asbjørnsen, Norwegian American sculptor (b. 1867)
André Derain, French painter and illustrator (b. 1880)
October 15 – Elwin Hawthorne, English painter (b. 1905)
October 18 – Einar Jónsson, Icelandic sculptor (b. 1874)
November 3 – Henri Matisse, French painter, sculptor and printmaker (b. 1869)
December 23 – René Iché, French sculptor (b. 1897)




See also


1954 in fine arts of the Soviet Union




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