1932 in art

none 1932 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.Sepp Schüller Forgers, Dealers, Experts: Strange Chapters in the History of Art Putnam 1960 76 June 16 – Pablo Picasso's retrospective exhibition opens at the Galeries Georges Petit in Paris, displaying 225 paintings.Michael C. FitzGerald FitzGerald Michael C. The Making of Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art 1995 June 25 – An article in The Saturday Evening Post (US) claims that the 1911 theft of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was partly masterminded by a forger named Yves Chaudron.Karl Decker The Saturday Evening Post Why and How the Mona Lisa Was Stolen 1932-06-25 August 2 – The Saint Petersburg Union of Artists is established (as the "Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists"). 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.Caroline Maclean Circles and Squares London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 978-1-4088-8969-5 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.Holger Cahill Holger Cahill American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America 1750–1900 New York MoMA 1932 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.Jirō Umezu 粉和寺緣起絵 吉備大臣入唐絵 Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki 6 Kadokawa Shoten Shinshū Nihon emakimono zenshū 1977 Works Graphic art Category:1932 paintings George Ault – Hoboken Factory Frank Brangwyn – British Empire Panels Salvador Dali – The Invisible Man Stuart Davis – Men Without Womenhttps://www.moma.org/collection/works/80650 Stuart Davis. Mural (Radio City Men's Lounge Mural: Men without Women). 1932 | MoMA Otto Dix – The War (triptych) Edward Hopper Room in Brooklynhttps://collections.mfa.org/objects/32499 Room in Brooklyn MFA 28 April 2025 Room in New York Lois Mailou Jones – The Ascent of Ethiopia Frieda Kahlo Henry Ford Hospital My Birthhttps://www.fridakahlo.org/my-birth.jsp My Birth Frida Kahlo 28 April 2025 Self Portrait on the Border Line Between Mexico and the United States Paul Klee – Ad Parnassum Fernand Leger – Composition with Three Figures Tamara de Lempicka Adam and Eve Portrait of Marjorie Ferry René Magritte – The Universe Unmasked Kazimir Malevich – Red Cavalry Henri Matisse – The Dance II (mural) Rolf Nesch – Elbe Bridge I Ben Nicholson – Au Chat Botté Winifred Nicholson The Artist's Children, Kate and Jake, at the Isle of Wight Kate and Jake on the Isle of Wight Pablo Picasso Femme à la montre Girl Before a Mirror La Lecture Nude in a Black Armchair Nude, Green Leaves and Bust Reclining Nude Reclining Nude (another version) Reclining Nude (another version) Le Repos Le Rêve Charles Sheeler River Rouge Plant Interior with Stove (conté crayon) Amrita Sher-Gil Young Girls Young Man with Apples Walter Sickert – Miss Earhart's Arrival (Tate Gallery, London) David Alfaro Siqueiros – América Tropical (fresco) Xul Solar – Palacio Almi Stanley Spencer completes his series of paintings at Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere Grant Wood – Daughters of Revolution Photographs Henri Cartier-Bresson – Derrière la gare de Saint-Lazare Charles Clyde Ebbets – Lunch atop a SkyscraperGambino Megan September 19, 2012 Lunch Atop a Skyscraper Photograph: The Story Behind the Famous Shot https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lunch-atop-a-skyscraper-photograph-the-story-behind-the-famous-shot-43931148/ Smithsonian 0037-7333 Smithsonian 2012 May 6, 2022 John Heartfield – photomontages Adolf, the Superman The Meaning of Geneva, Where Capital Lives, There Can Be No Peace Sculptures Category:1932 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 (Seattle) 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 (Helsinki) Rodgers and Poor – Kill Devil Hill Monument Awards Archibald Prize: Ernest Buckmaster – Sir William Irvine Births February 9 – Gerhard Richter, German painterhttps://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/biography Early Years » Biography » Gerhard Richter www.gerhard-richter.com en 25 August 2019 March 2 – Benedetto Robazza, Italian sculptor (d. 2000) March 10 – Euan Uglow, English painter (d. 2000)Eric Pace Euan Uglow, 68, British Realist Who Won Praise for His Still Lifes https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/02/arts/euan-uglow-68-british-realist-who-won-praise-for-his-still-lifes.html subscription 5 December 2020 The New York Times 2 September 2000 A 17 March 14 – Norval Morrisseau, Aboriginal Canadian artist (d. 2007)https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/norval-morrisseau Norval Morrisseau The Canadian Encyclopedia 25 August 2024 April 10 – James Lee Byars, American artist (d. 1997) https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/30/arts/james-lee-byars-65-creator-of-art-that-lived-in-a-moment.html James Lee Byars, 65, Creator Of Art That Lived in a Moment Roberta Smith The New York Times 30 May 1997 April 19 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor (d. 2023) 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 6 – Ivan Chermayeff, English-born American graphic designer (d. 2017) 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 (d. 2017)McNay Michael Sir Howard Hodgkin obituary https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/mar/09/sir-howard-hodgkin-obituary The Guardian 23 January 2020 9 March 2017 August 17 – Jean-Jacques Sempé, French cartoonist and illustrator (d. 2022) August 19 – Jacques Lob, French comic book creator (d. 1990) August 23 – Valentina Monakhova, Russian painter and graphic artist (d. 2017) October 4 – Terence Conran, English designer (d. 2020)https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/sep/12/sir-terence-conran-obituary Terence Conran Obituary Stephen Bayley 12 September 2020 The Guardian 25 August 2024 October 14 – Wolf Vostell, German artist (d. 1998)Alex Kayser Andy Warhol Artists' Portraits H.N. Abrams 1981 9780810922228 1925 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 December 26 – Ken Howard, English painter (d. 2022) date unknown – Basil Blackshaw, Northern Irish painter (d. 2016) Deaths January 15 – John Henry Dearle, English textile designer (b. 1859)The Year's Art J.S. Virture & Company 1933 270 February 6 – Hermann Ottomar Herzog, German American landscape painter (b. 1832)Edward Pollack Deborah C. Pollack Hermann Herzog: His Remarkable Life, Unrivaled Florida Work, and Rightful Place in American Art History Blue Heron Press 2023 27, 29-30 February 11 – Robert Gibb, Scottish painter (b. 1845) March – Elizabeth Taylor, American traveller and artist (b. 1856) March 5 – Johan Thorn Prikker, Dutch art nouveau painter and stained-glass artist (b. 1868) March 11 – Dora Carrington, English Bloomsbury Group painter and designer (b. 1893)David Boyd Haycock David Boyd Haycock Old Street Publishing (London) 2009 A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 978-1-905847-84-6 2 March 21 – Georg Dehio, Baltic German art historian (b. 1850) March 23 – Boris Schatz, Lithuanian Jewish sculptor (b. 1866)August 2024 March 25 – Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter (b. 1845)Delia Gaze Concise Dictionary of Women Artists New York Routledge 2011 978-1-57958-335-4 167 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)August 2024 July 19 – Louis Maurer, German American lithographer (b. 1832)Alfred H. Maurer, 1868-1932 United States National Collection of Fine Arts 1973 134 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)Obituary Apollo Apollo 17 97 1933 46-47 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)Obituary in The Times, Mr W.G. Collingwood, Artist, Author and Antiquary. October 3, 1932, p.9 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) Miss Gertrude Jekyll 10 December 1932 46313 12 December 9 – Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer and sculptor (b. 1865) See also 1932 in fine arts of the Soviet Union References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1930s in art