1932 in art

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The year 1932 in art involved some significant events and new works.

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.[1]
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.[2]
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.
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

Awards

Archibald Prize: Ernest Buckmaster – Sir William Irvine

Births

February 9 – Gerhard Richter, German painter
March 10 – Euan Uglow, English painter (d. 2000)
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 (d. 2017)[4]
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
December 26 – Ken Howard, English painter
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 – 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)
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)

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References

FitzGerald, Michael C. (1995). The Making of Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art.
Decker, Karl (1932-06-25). "Why and How the Mona Lisa Was Stolen". The Saturday Evening Post.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80650
McNay, Michael (9 March 2017). "Sir Howard Hodgkin obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 January 2020.

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[1] FitzGerald, Michael C. (1995). The Making of Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art.

[2] Decker, Karl (1932-06-25). "Why and How the Mona Lisa Was Stolen". The Saturday Evening Post.

[3] ttps://www.moma.org/collection/works/80650

[4] McNay, Michael (9 March 2017). "Sir Howard Hodgkin obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 January 2020.

1932 in art

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Graphic art

Photographs

Sculptures

Awards

Births

Deaths

See also

References