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1928
 
   
English sculptor Henry Moore has his first solo exhibition, at the Warren Gallery in London      
Henry Moore, photograph by Ida Kar, 1954
National Portrait Gallery, London

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c. 1930
 
    
Henri Matisse completes his Backsequence – four progressively simplified bronze relief sculptures (Nus de Dos)       
1932
 
    
Marcel Duchamp coins the term 'mobile' for Alexander Calder's new suspended art form       
1937
 
   
British artist Ben Nicholson does the first of his characteristic abstract white reliefs      
1938
 
    
Leading British artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson marry       
1939
 
     
Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson move their studios to St Ives        
1940
 
    
After his London studio is bombed, Henry Moore moves to Much Hadham, where he works and lives for the rest of his life       
1943
 
   
Pablo Picasso transforms a bicycle's handlebars and saddle into Head of a Bull      
1944
 
   
Commissioned by a church in Northampton to sculpt a Madonna and Child, British sculptor Henry Moore produces the first of his family groups      
1947
 
  
Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti begins to develop his characteristic style of tense elongated bronze sculpture