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1907
 
     
Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a violent transition into cubism, is a turning point in western art        
1908
 
   
Without financial support from his mother, Hitler ekes out a meagre living painting postcards and advertisements      
c. 1908
 
     
Georges Braque's Houses at L'Estaque introduces analytic Cubism        
1908
 
    
The French critic Louis Vauxcelles describes Braque's latest landscapes as being composed of cubes, resulting in the term cubism       
1910
 
     
The critic Roger Fry presents in London's Grafton Galleries an influential exhibition of Post-Impressionist art        
1910
 
     
Henri Matisse completes two large paintings, La Danse and La Musique, for the staircase of Sergei Shchukin's house in Moscow        
1910
 
    
Wassily Kandinsky's paintings entitled Compositions are the first examples of purely abstract art       
1910
 
   
The part-time English painter L.S. Lowry begins a lifetime career in a Manchester property company      
L.S. Lowry, photograph by Ida Kar, 1954
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1911
 
    
Walter Sickert and other painters, sharing his preference for everyday subjects, adopt the name Camden Town Group       
1911
 
    
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre in Paris