Cubism: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date

1908 - 1929

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Pablo Picasso • Le Corbusier • Piet Mondrian • Paul Klee • Marcel Duchamp • Georges Braque • Albert Gleizes • Fernand Léger • Nadezhda Andreyevna Udaltsova • Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova • Malvin Gray Johnson • Gino Severini • Ivan Albertovich Puni • Aristarkh Vasilyevich Lentulov • Stuart Davis • Wifredo Lam • Francis Picabia • Jacques Villon • Ivan Vasilyevich Klyun • Aaron Douglas • Jacques Lipchitz • Alexander Archipenko • Max Weber • Roger de La Fresnaye • Juan Gris • Robert Delaunay • Arthur B. Davies • Pablo Gargallo • Bradley Walker Tomlin • Raymond Duchamp-Villon • Henri Laurens • André Lhote • Pierre Reverdy

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