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1925
 
   
A fashionable new style, Art Deco, derives its name from a Paris exhibition called the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs Industriels et Modernes      
c. 1930
 
    
Henri Matisse completes his Backsequence – four progressively simplified bronze relief sculptures (Nus de Dos)       
1932
 
    
The French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has his first exhibition, in the Julien Levy Gallery in New York       
1933
 
    
Hungarian photographer Brassaï publishes his photographs of the seedier side of Paris night life in Paris de Nuit       
1935
 
    
Pablo Picasso's Minotauromachy, a masterpiece of etching, prefigures some of the themes of Guernica       
1936
 
   
The Spanish Civil War causes the Basque designer Cristobal Balenciaga to move his business to Paris, capital of the fashion world      
1937
 
     
Pablo Picasso's massive painting Guernica is exhibited in the Spanish pavilion at the World Fair in Paris        
c. 1941
 
    
Henri Matisse, recovering from an operation, develops his technique of gouaches découpées (cut-out patches of painted paper)       
1943
 
   
Pablo Picasso transforms a bicycle's handlebars and saddle into Head of a Bull      
1947
 
     
Capa, Cartier-Bresson and others found Magnum, a cooperative of leading photographers running their own picture agency