1932 in art
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[edit] Events
- 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.
[edit] Works
[edit] Paintings
- See also: Category:1932 paintings
- Frank Brangwyn - British Empire Panels
- René Magritte - The Universe Unmasked
- Pablo Picasso - Girl Before a Mirror (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
- Walter Sickert - Miss Earhart's Arrival (Tate Gallery, London)
[edit] Sculptures
- Alberto Giacometti - Woman with her Throat Cut
- Henry Moore - Half-figure
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
[edit] January to June
- 14 March - Norval Morrisseau, Aboriginal Canadian artist (d.2007).
- 10 April - James Lee Byars, American artist (d.1997).
- 19 April - Fernando Botero, painter and sculptor.
- 4 May - Ivor Wood, English stop-motion animator (d.2004).
- 5 June - Christy Brown, Irish author, painter and poet (d.1981).
[edit] July to December
- 20 July - Nam June Paik, South Korean-born American video artist (d.2006).
- 6 August - Howard Hodgkin, painter.
- 19 August - Jacques Lob, French comic book creator (d.1990).
- 4 October - Terence Conran, designer.
- 22 October - Afewerk Tekle, painter and stained glass artist.
- 29 October - R. B. Kitaj, American-born English artist (d.2007).
- 7 December - Paul Caponigro, photographer.
[edit] Full date unknown
- Basil Blackshaw, Northern Irish painter.
- Walter Hopps, American museum director and curator (d.2005).
[edit] 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)
- 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 17 - Lucy Bacon, painter
- October 23 - Daniel Hernández, painter
- November 30 - Gari Melchers, painter
- Karl Blossfeldt, photographer and sculptor
- Samuel P. Dinsmoor, sculptor
- Boris Schatz, sculptor
- Gertrude Jekyll, garden designer (b. 1843)
- W. G. Collingwood, painter and author (b. 1854)
- Lucy Bacon, Impressionist painter (b. 1857)
