1954 in art
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Events[edit]
- November 18 - Publication of Yves Peintures (in Madrid), the first public showing of Yves Klein's work.
Awards[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Augustus John at the Royal Academy
Works[edit]
See also: Category:1954 sculptures
- 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[edit]
Births[edit]
- January 19 - Cindy Sherman, artist, photographer
- February 6 - George Sherwood, sculptor
- March 23 - Kenneth Cole, fashion designer
- September 12 - Robert Gober, sculptor
Deaths[edit]
- January 26 - Carl Eldh, Swedish painter and sculptor (b. 1873)
- 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[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 40053. p. 10. 29 December 1953. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
