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.
• November 15 – First exhibition of Group f/64 photographers opens at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
• 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.

  Works

Graphic art

• Frank Brangwyn – British Empire Panels
• Stuart Davis - Men Without Women
• Edward Hopper
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• Lois Mailou Jones – The Ascent of Ethiopia
• Frieda Kahlo
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• Harold Knight
• * Girl Reading
• * Girl Writing
• René Magritte – The Universe Unmasked
• Rolf Nesch – :File:Rolf-Nesch-Bro-Over-Elben.jpg|Elbe Bridge I
• Pablo Picasso
• * Girl Before a Mirror
• * La Lecture
• * Nude in a Black Armchair
• * Nude, Green Leaves and Bust
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• * Le Rêve
• Charles Sheeler
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• Amrita Sher-Gil – :File:Young Girls, 1932, by Amrita Sher-Gil.jpg|Young Girls
• Walter Sickert –
• 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
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  Sculptures

• Alberto Giacometti – Woman with her Throat Cut
• Alfred Gilbert – Queen Alexandra Memorial
• Käthe Kollwitz – :File:Het treurende ouderpaar - Käthe Kolwitz.JPG|The Grieving Parents
• Gaston Lachaise – Standing Woman
• Leo Lentelli – The James Cardinal Gibbons Memorial Statue
• Alonzo Victor Lewis – American Doughboy Bringing Home Victory
• Paul Manship
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• * 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 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 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
• 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