1953 in art

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Events

• Yves Klein becomes a master at judo, receiving the rank of yodan (4th dan/degree black-belt) from the Kodokan in Japan.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - Sir Henry Simpson Newland, CBE, DSO, MS, FRCS

Works

• Hans Arp - Cloud Shepherd (sculpture, University City of Caracas)
• Francis Bacon - Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
• Alexander Calder - Acoustic Clouds (installation, University City of Caracas)
• Edwin Dickinson - Ruin at Daphne (begun 1943; Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Jacob Epstein - Social Consciousness (sculpture group, Philadelphia)
• M. C. Escher - Relativity (lithograph)
• Barbara Hepworth - Hieroglyph (sculpture)
• Edward Hopper - Office in a Small City (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Willem de Kooning - Woman III
• L. S. Lowry - Football Ground
• René Magritte - Golconda
• Marino Marini - Horse and Rider (bronze)
• Henri Matisse - The Snail (colored paper collage)
• Roberto Matta - Cercle du Blé (Circle of Wheat) (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Milton Menasco - 'La Troienne' and Her Foals: Eighteen Vignettes and One Painting Together in One Frame for John Whitney
• Henry Moore - Draped Reclining Figure (bronze)
• Jackson Pollock - Portrait and a Dream
• Larry Rivers - Washington Crossing the Delaware
• Mark Rothko - No. 61 (Rust and Blue)
• Charles Sheeler - Ore Into Iron (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Ellis Wilson - Caribbean Bird Vendor

Exhibitions

Births

• 7 January - Robert Longo, painter and sculptor.
• 25 February - Martin Kippenberger, German artist (d.1997).
• 24 April - Eric Bogosian, performance artist.
• 12 September - Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer and artist (d.2004).

Full date unknown

• Helen Chadwick, British artist (d.1996).
• Kevin O'Neill, illustrator.

Deaths

• March 23 - Raoul Dufy, painter (b. 1877)
• April 29 - Moise Kisling, painter
• April 29 - Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse"), artist, model and entertainer
• June 23 - Albert Gleizes, painter (b. 1881)
• October 2 - John Marin, Modernist painter (b. 1870)
• October 6 - Vera Mukhina, sculptor
• October 11 - James Earle Fraser, sculptor
• November 30 - Francis Picabia, painter and poet
• date unknown - J. Laurie Wallace, Irish/American artist (b.1864)

See also

• 1953 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union