1932 in art

Events from the year 1932 in art.

Events

April 6–19 – German art dealer Otto Wacker is tried and convicted in Berlin for selling forged paintings he attributed to Vincent van Gogh and sentenced to 19 months in prison.
June 16 – Pablo Picasso's retrospective exhibition opens at the Galeries Georges Petit in Paris, displaying 225 paintings.
June 25 – An article in The Saturday Evening Post claims that the 1911 theft of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was partly masterminded by a forger named Yves Chaudron.
August 2 – The Saint Petersburg Union of Artists is established.
October – Courtauld Institute of Art opens in London.
October–November – Exhibition Carvings by Barbara Hepworth, Paintings by Ben Nicholson at the Arthur Tooth & Sons gallery in London.
November 15 – First exhibition of Group f/64 photographers opens at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
November 30 – Exhibition American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America 1750–1900 opens at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Alvar Aalto designs a new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture.
The Wedgwood pottery firm in England first commissions designs from Keith Murray.
First Abstraction-Création Cahier, Abstraction-création: Art non-figuratif, is produced.
Sale of the late 12th century Japanese emakimono ''Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki'' to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the United States causes the Japanese government to impose restrictions on sale of significant artistic works from the country.

Works

Graphic art

Photographs

Henri Cartier-Bresson – Derrière la gare de Saint-Lazare
Charles Clyde Ebbets – Lunch atop a Skyscraper
John Heartfield – photomontages
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* ''The Meaning of Geneva, Where Capital Lives, There Can Be No Peace''

Sculptures

Alberto Giacometti – Woman with her Throat Cut
Alfred Gilbert – Queen Alexandra Memorial
Barbara Hepworth – Pierced Form
Joseph Klein – Statue of Thomas E. Watson
Käthe Kollwitz – The Grieving Parents
Gaston Lachaise – Standing Woman
Leo Lentelli – The James Cardinal Gibbons Memorial Statue
Alonzo Victor Lewis – American Doughboy Bringing Home Victory
Frederick William MacMonnies – American Monument
Hermon Atkins MacNeil – Confederate Defenders of Charleston
Paul Manship
* Abraham Lincoln: The Hoosier Youth
* Group of Bears
Henry Moore – Half-figure
Felix Nylund – Three Smiths Statue
Rodgers and Poor – ''Kill Devil Hill Monument''

Awards

Archibald Prize: Ernest Buckmaster – ''Sir William Irvine''

Births

February 9 – Gerhard Richter, German painter
March 2 – Benedetto Robazza, Italian sculptor
March 10 – Euan Uglow, English painter
March 14 – Norval Morrisseau, Aboriginal Canadian artist
April 10 – James Lee Byars, American artist
April 19 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor
May 3 – Walter Hopps, American museum director and curator
May 4 – Ivor Wood, English stop-motion animator
May 14 – Yuri Khukhrov, Russian painter
June 5 – Christy Brown, Irish author, painter and poet
June 25 – Peter Blake, English pop artist
July 20 – Nam June Paik, South Korean-born American video artist
August 6 – Howard Hodgkin, English painter
August 17 – Jean-Jacques Sempé, French cartoonist and illustrator
August 19 – Jacques Lob, French comic book creator
August 23 – Valentina Monakhova, Russian painter and graphic artist
October 4 – Terence Conran, English designer
October 14 – Wolf Vostell, German artist
October 22 – Afewerk Tekle, Ethiopian painter and stained glass artist
October 29 – R. B. Kitaj, American-born English artist
December 7 – Paul Caponigro, American photographer
December 16 – Quentin Blake, English illustrator
December 26 – Ken Howard, English painter
date unknown – Basil Blackshaw, Northern Irish painter

Deaths

January 15 – John Henry Dearle, English textile designer
February 6 – Hermann Ottomar Herzog, German American landscape painter
February 11 – Robert Gibb, Scottish painter
March – Elizabeth Taylor, American traveller and artist
March 5 – Johan Thorn Prikker, Dutch art nouveau painter and stained-glass artist
March 11 – Dora Carrington, English Bloomsbury Group painter and designer
March 21 – Georg Dehio, Baltic German art historian
March 23 – Boris Schatz, Lithuanian Jewish sculptor
March 25 – Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter
April 2 – Ella Gaunt Smith, American doll-maker
June 6 – Alois Dryák, Czech architect and designer
July 14 – Dimitrie Paciurea, Romanian sculptor
July 19 – Louis Maurer, German American lithographer
July 21 – Samuel P. Dinsmoor, American sculptor
August 4 – Alfred Henry Maurer, American modernist painter, son of Louis
September 20 – Max Slevogt, German artist
September 23 – Jules Chéret, French painter and lithographer
September 28 – Emil Orlík, Austro-Hungarian etcher and lithographer
October 1 – W. G. Collingwood, English painter and author
October 2 – Carl Seffner, German portrait sculptor
October 17 – Lucy Bacon, American Impressionist painter
October 23 – Daniel Hernández Morillo, Peruvian painter
November 30 – Gari Melchers, American naturalist painter
December 8 – Gertrude Jekyll, English garden designer
December 9 – Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer and sculptor