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1925
 
    
House by the Railroad, by US painter Edward Hopper, introduces a new style of urban realism       
1927
 
    
Stanley Spencer completes his large visionary canvas The Resurrection: Cookham       
1927
 
    
The Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte has his first one-man show, at the Galerie Centaure in Brussels       
1927
 
    
Stanley Spencer begins his murals in the Memorial Chapel for Henry Sandham at Burghclere, in Hampshire       
1931
 
    
In his painting The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali provides the disturbing image of watches drooping from the edge of flat surfaces       
c. 1932
 
  
The British artist Graham Sutherland, after an early career as a printmaker, takes up painting relatively late in life     
Graham Sutherland, self-portrait, 1977
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1934
 
   
British painter Francis Bacon has his first solo show in London      
Francis Bacon, by Ruskin Spear, 1984
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1937
 
   
A Nazi exhibition of 'degenerate art' opens in Munich, and visitors are invited to mock the avant-garde works on show      
1937
 
     
Pablo Picasso's massive painting Guernica is exhibited in the Spanish pavilion at the World Fair in Paris        
1937
 
     
William Coldstream and Victor Pasmore open a school of art with a distinctive style, known from its location as the Euston Road School