1932 in art

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

Picasso - Nude in a Black Armchair

Paintings

• Frank Brangwyn - British Empire Panels
• Lois Mailou Jones - The Ascent of Ethiopia
• Harold Knight
  • Girl Reading
  • Girl Writing
• René Magritte - The Universe Unmasked
• 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
• 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

Sculptures

• Alberto Giacometti - Woman with her Throat Cut
• 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

• Archibald Prize: Ernest Buckmaster - Sir William Irvine

Births

January to June

• March 14 - Norval Morrisseau, Aboriginal Canadian artist (d. 2007)
• April 10 - James Lee Byars, American artist (d. 1997)
• April 19 - Fernando Botero, 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, painter
• August 19 - Jacques Lob, French comic book creator (d. 1990)
• August 23 — Valentina Monakhova, Russian painter and graphic artist.
• October 4 - Terence Conran, designer
• October 14 - Wolf Vostell, german artist
• October 22 - Afewerk Tekle, painter and stained glass artist
• October 29 - R. B. Kitaj, American-born English artist (d. 2007)
• December 7 - Paul Caponigro, photographer

date unknown - Basil Blackshaw, Northern Irish painter

Deaths

• February 6 - Hermann Ottomar Herzog, painter
• February 11 - Robert Gibb, painter
• March - Elizabeth Taylor, traveller and artist
• March 5 - Jan Thorn-Prikker, painter and stained-glass artist
• March 11 - Dora Carrington, painter and designer
• March 21 - Georg Dehio, art historian (b. 1850)
• March 23 - Boris Schatz, sculptor
• April 2 - Ella Gaunt Smith, doll-maker
• June 6 - Alois Dryák, architect and designer
• July 14 - Dimitrie Paciurea, sculptor
• July 19 - Louis Maurer, lithographer
• August 4 - Alfred Henry Maurer, painter
• September 11 - Hermann Ottomar Herzog, painter
• September 23 - Jules Chéret, painter and lithographer
• September 28 - Emil Orlik, etcher and lithographer (b. 1870)
• October 1 - W. G. Collingwood, painter and author (b. 1854)
• October 17 - Lucy Bacon, Impressionist painter (b. 1857)
• October 23 - Daniel Hernández, painter
• November 30 - Gari Melchers, painter
• December 8 - Gertrude Jekyll, garden designer (b. 1843)
• December 9 - Karl Blossfeldt, photographer and sculptor
• date unknown - Samuel P. Dinsmoor, sculptor

See also

• 1932 in fine arts of the Soviet Union