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Events relating to sculpture
Henri Matisse completes his Backsequence – four progressively simplified bronze relief sculptures (Nus de Dos)
Marcel Duchamp coins the term 'mobile' for Alexander Calder's new suspended art form
British artist Ben Nicholson does the first of his characteristic abstract white reliefs
Leading British artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson marry
Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson move their studios to St Ives
After his London studio is bombed, Henry Moore moves to Much Hadham, where he works and lives for the rest of his life
Pablo Picasso transforms a bicycle's handlebars and saddle into Head of a Bull
Commissioned by a church in Northampton to sculpt a Madonna and Child, British sculptor Henry Moore produces the first of his family groups
Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti begins to develop his characteristic style of tense elongated bronze sculpture
British artist Anthony Caro begins welding and painting abstract metal sculpture
Coventry's new cathedral is inaugurated, enhanced by a wide range of work by leading British artists
George Segal's bronze monument The Holocaust is unveiled in San Francisco
Tony Cragg's Raleigh is unveiled outside the Tate Gallery in his home town of Liverpool
US sculptor Richard Serra's Tilted Arc is removed from Federal Plaza, New York, after legal action by local protesters
British artist Marc Quinn creates Self, the first in a series of cast sculptures of his head, made from his own frozen blood
Eduardo Paolozzi's vast bronze sculpture The Wealth of Nations is installed at South Kyle, near Edinburgh
Rachel Whiteread's Untitled (House) is a concrete cast of the interior of a house in London's East End
Anthony Gormley's massive metal Angel of the North is erected near Gateshead in northern England
A team from the University of Tübingen find a tiny figurine of a mammoth, at that time the earliest known piece of European figurative sculpture
Archaeologists from Tübingen discover the Hohle Fels Venus, about 38,000 years old and the earliest known figurative sculpture in Europe
A sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, L'Homme qui marche, sets a new auction record for a work of art at £65 million (US$103.7 million)
Anish Kapoor's 114.5 metres tall sculpture, AncelorMittal Orbit, is erected in the Queen Elizabeth Park, created in East London for the Olympic Games
