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
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
- Salvador Dalí
- 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
- 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)[2]
- 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)
References
- "No. 40053". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1953. p. 10.
- https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/mark-rothko-untitled-yellow-and-blue-1954
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