1954 in art
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- 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
- Jared French - The Rope[2]
- 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[3]
- Sergei Orlov and others – Statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, Moscow
- Abbott Pattison – Iron Horse (sculpture)
- Pablo Picasso – Sylvette
- Norman Rockwell – Breaking Home Ties
- Simon Rodia - Watts Towers (sculptures-assemblage) (completed)
- Mark Rothko – Untitled (Yellow and Blue)[4]
- 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