1932 - Art

Art

Painting: Girl Before a Mirror, Bather with Beach Ball, Nude on a Black Armchair, Still Life with Tulips, and The Dream by Pablo Picasso; Christ Mocked by Soldiers by Georges Rouault; Sacré Coeur by Maurice Utrillo; The Bathroom by Pierre Bonnard; Professor Sauerbruch by Max Liebermann, now 85; Bauhaus Staircase by German painter Oskar Schlemmer, 44; George [Gershwin] in an Imaginary Concert Hall by David Alfaro Siqueiros, who has met the composer on the latter's 4-week visit to Mexico and includes members of Gershwin's family, including his late father, in front-row audience seats; Popocatépetl, Spiritual Morning—Mexico by Marsden Hartley; Sacco and Vanzetti by Lithuanian-born New York painter Ben (Benjamin) Shahn, 33, who produces 23 gouaches inspired by the execution in 1927; The Bowery by New York painter Reginald Marsh, 34; Daughters of the American Revolution by Grant Wood; Butterfly Chaser and The Arts of Life in America (murals) by Thomas Hart Benton. Painter Alfred H. Maurer dies at his native New York August 4 at age 64.

Sculpture: Head of a Woman by Pablo Picasso.

Motorized and hand-cranked "stabiles" by Alexander Calder create a stir at Paris (see 1931). Calder follows his stabiles with hanging "mobiles" that move with air currents (Marcel Duchamp has suggested the name).

Flushing, Queens, sculptor Joseph Cornell, 28, exhibits his first boxes containing found objects.