1954 in art

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The year 1954 in art involved some significant events and new works.

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.

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)

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