title: 1954 in art
text: # 1954 in art
  
  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)
  
  ## 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)
  