1932 in art
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Events
- August 2 – The Saint Petersburg Union of Artists is established (as the "Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists").
- Alvar Aalto designs a new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture.
- Courtauld Institute of Art is founded in London.
- The Wedgwood pottery firm commissions its first designs from Keith Murray.
- First Abstraction-Création Cahier, Abstraction-création: Art non-figuratif, is produced.
Works
Paintings
- Frank Brangwyn – British Empire Panels
- Edward Hopper – Room in New York
- Lois Mailou Jones – The Ascent of Ethiopia
- Frieda Kahlo
- Harold Knight
- Girl Reading
- Girl Writing
- René Magritte – The Universe Unmasked
- Rolf Nesch – Elbe Bridge I
- Pablo Picasso
- Girl Before a Mirror (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
- La Lecture
- Nude in a Black Armchair
- Nude, Green Leaves and Bust
- Le Rêve
- Amrita Sher-Gil – Young Girls
- Walter Sickert – Miss Earhart's Arrival (Tate Gallery, London)
- Xul Solar – Palacio Almi
- Stanley Spencer completes his series of paintings at Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere
Photographs
- Henri Cartier-Bresson – Derrière la gare de Saint-Lazare
- Charles Clyde Ebbets – Lunch atop a Skyscraper
- John Heartfield – photomontages
Sculptures
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- Alberto Giacometti – Woman with her Throat Cut
- Käthe Kollwitz – The Grieving Parents
- Gaston Lachaise – Standing Woman
- Leo Lentelli – The James Cardinal Gibbons Memorial Statue
- Paul Manship – Abraham Lincoln: The Hoosier Youth
- Henry Moore – Half-figure
- Felix Nylund – Three Smiths Statue (Helsinki)
- Rodgers and Poor – Kill Devil Hill Monument
Awards
Births
- February 9 – Gerhard Richter, German painter
- March 14 – Norval Morrisseau, Aboriginal Canadian artist (d. 2007)
- April 10 – James Lee Byars, American artist (d. 1997)
- April 19 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor
- May 3 – Walter Hopps, American museum director and curator (d. 2005)
- May 4 – Ivor Wood, English stop-motion animator (d. 2004)
- May 14 – Yuri Khukhrov, Russian painter (d. 2003)
- June 5 – Christy Brown, Irish author, painter and poet (d. 1981)
- June 25 – Peter Blake, English pop artist
- July 20 – Nam June Paik, South Korean-born American video artist (d. 2006)
- August 6 – Howard Hodgkin, English painter
- August 19 – Jacques Lob, French comic book creator (d. 1990)
- 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 (d. 2012)
- October 29 – R. B. Kitaj, American-born English artist (d. 2007)
- December 7 – Paul Caponigro, American photographer
- December 16 – Quentin Blake, English illustrator
- date unknown – Basil Blackshaw, Northern Irish painter
Deaths
- January 15 – John Henry Dearle, English textile designer (b. 1859)
- February 6 – Hermann Ottomar Herzog, German American landscape painter (b. 1832)
- February 11 – Robert Gibb, Scottish painter (b. 1845)
- March – Elizabeth Taylor, American traveller and artist (b. 1856)
- March 5 – Jan Thorn Prikker, Dutch art nouveau painter and stained-glass artist (b. 1868)
- March 11 – Dora Carrington, English Bloomsbury Group painter and designer (b. 1893)
- March 21 – Georg Dehio, Baltic German art historian (b. 1850)
- March 23 – Boris Schatz, Lithuanian Jewish sculptor (b. 1866)
- April 2 – Ella Gaunt Smith, American doll-maker (b. 1868)
- June 6 – Alois Dryák, Czech architect and designer (b. 1872)
- July 14 – Dimitrie Paciurea, Romanian sculptor (b. 1873 or 1875)
- July 19 – Louis Maurer, German American lithographer (b. 1832)
- July 21 – Samuel P. Dinsmoor, American sculptor (b. 1843)
- August 4 – Alfred Henry Maurer, American modernist painter, son of Louis (suicide; b. 1868)
- September 20 – Max Slevogt, German artist (b. 1868)
- September 23 – Jules Chéret, French painter and lithographer (b. 1836)
- September 28 – Emil Orlík, Austro-Hungarian etcher and lithographer (b. 1870)
- October 1 – W. G. Collingwood, English painter and author (b. 1854)
- October 2 – Carl Seffner, German portrait sculptor (b. 1861)
- October 17 – Lucy Bacon, American Impressionist painter (b. 1857)
- October 23 – Daniel Hernández Morillo, Peruvian painter (b. 1856)
- November 30 – Gari Melchers, American naturalist painter (b. 1860)
- December 8 – Gertrude Jekyll, English garden designer (b. 1843)
- December 9 – Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer and sculptor (b. 1865)
