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.
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
Augustus John at the Royal Academy
Francis Bacon – Figure with Meat (Art Institute of Chicago)
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
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 Léger – Stained-glass window at University City of Caracas
Abbott Pattison – Iron Horse (sculpture)
Pablo Picasso – Sylvette
Norman Rockwell – Breaking Home Ties
Graham Sutherland – Portrait of Winston Churchill (destroyed)
Victor Vasarely – Hommage á Malévitch (ceramic wall at University City of Caracas)
January 19 – Cindy Sherman, artist, photographer
February 6 – George Sherwood, sculptor
March 23 – Kenneth Cole, fashion designer
September 12 – Robert Gober, sculptor
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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