Events

• November 18 - Publication of Yves Peintures (in Madrid), the first public showing of Yves Klein's work.

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

• 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 1954
• Salvador Dal
  • 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 L ger - 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 Mal vitch (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)
• March 13 - C sar 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
  • Andr Derain, painter and illustrator (b. 1880)
  • Sigvald Asbj rnsen, sculptor (b. 1867)
• October 18 - Einar J nsson, sculptor (b. 1874)
• November 3 - Henri Matisse, painter, sculptor, printmaker (b. 1869)
• December 23 - Ren Ich , sculptor (b. 1897)

See also

• 1954 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

Reference

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