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Events

• June 18 - Pablo Picasso marries Olga Khoklova.
• December 3 - Founding of the November Group of expressionist artists.

Works

• Katherine Sophie Dreier - Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp
• José Malhoa - Autumn
• Amedeo Modigliani - Portrait of Blaise Cendrars

Births

January to June

• 6 February - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (d.2007).
• 7 February - Markey Robinson, Irish painter (d.1999).
• 12 March - Elaine de Kooning, American abstract expressionist painter (d.1989).
• 10 April - Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and photo curator (d.2008).
• 9 May - Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (d.2006).

July to December

• 11 July - Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (d.1983).
• 25 July - Jane Frank, American painter, sculptor, mixed media artist and textile artist (d.1986).
• 8 August - Brian Stonehouse, English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (d.1998).
• 22 September - Cleve Gray, American Abstract expressionist painter (d.2004).
• 7 October - Mimmo Rotella, Italian artist and poet (d.2006).
• 8 November - Hermann Zapf, typeface designer.
• 14 December - Jack Cole, comic book artist.

Deaths

• February 6 - Gustav Klimt, Symbolist painter (b. 1862)
• April - Niko Pirosmanashvili, painter
• April 1 - Isaac Rosenberg, painter and poet (b. 1890)
• April 23 - Paul Sébillot, painter and author (b. 1842)
• May 19 - Ferdinand Hodler, painter (b. 1853)
• June 28 - Albert Henry Munsell, inventor of the Munsell color system (b. 1858)
• October 9 - Raymond Duchamp-Villon, sculptor
• October 30 - Egon Schiele, painter (b. 1890)
• December 22 - Charles Edward Perugini, English painter (b. 1839)