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| 1911 |
| | Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre in Paris | |
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| 1912 |
| | Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2 creates a stir | |
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| 1912 |
| | Georges Braque's Fruit-Dish and Glass adds papier collé (a type of collage) to the conventions of cubism | |
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| 1912 |
| | Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term Orphism for Robert Delaunay's distinctive style of abstraction | |
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| c. 1913 |
| | The cubist movement enters its second phase, deriving from the use of collage and known as Synthetic cubism | |
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| 1913 |
| | Leonardo's Mona Lisa is recovered two years after its theft when the thief, Vincenzo Perugia, tries to sell it to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence | |
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| 1916 |
| | Claude Monet begins the great cyclorama of water-lilies, Nympheas, that he donates to the French nation | |
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| 1917 |
| | The French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is the first to use the term Surrealism | |
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| 1917 |
| | Amedeo Modigliani's first Paris exhibition is immediately closed by the police because it contains paintings of nudes | |
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| 1937 |
| | Pablo Picasso's massive painting Guernica is exhibited in the Spanish pavilion at the World Fair in Paris | |
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