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1912
 
    
Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2 creates a stir       
1912
 
    
Georges Braque's Fruit-Dish and Glass adds papier collé (a type of collage) to the conventions of cubism       
1912
 
     
Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term Orphism for Robert Delaunay's distinctive style of abstraction        
c. 1913
 
    
The cubist movement enters its second phase, deriving from the use of collage and known as Synthetic cubism       
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       
1916
 
   
Claude Monet begins the great cyclorama of water-lilies, Nympheas, that he donates to the French nation      
1917
 
    
The French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is the first to use the term Surrealism       
1917
 
   
Amedeo Modigliani's first Paris exhibition is immediately closed by the police because it contains paintings of nudes      
1937
 
     
Pablo Picasso's massive painting Guernica is exhibited in the Spanish pavilion at the World Fair in Paris        
1951
 
    
Henri Matisse completes the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence, with every detail designed by himself