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EVENTS

The Omega Workshops are founded by members of the Bloomsbury Group .

Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes publish the first major treatise on Cubism , entitled ''Du Cubisme''.

William Zorach marries Marguerite Thompson .

WORKS

Pierre Bonnard - ''St Tropez, Pier''

Marcel Duchamp - '' Nude Descending A Staircase, No. 2 ''

Pablo Picasso - ''Violon, verre, pipe et encrier''

T. F. Simon - ''Second Hand Booksellers, Spring''

BIRTHS

January 28 - Jackson Pollock , American painter (d. 1956 )

December 27 - Conroy Maddox , British surrealist painter (d. 2005 )

DEATHS

March 29 - John Gerrard Keulemans , bird illustrator

May 2 - Homer Davenport , cartoonist

June 25 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema , Dutch painter

November 1 - John Emms , painter

December 23 - Edouard Detaille , painter

''date unknown'' - Tony Robert-Fleury , painter