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.

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, 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
- André Derain, painter and illustrator (b. 1880)
- Sigvald Asbjørnsen, sculptor (b. 1867)
October 18 – Einar Jónsson, sculptor (b. 1874)
November 3 – Henri Matisse, painter, sculptor, printmaker (b. 1869)
December 23 – René Iché, sculptor (b. 1897)

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