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EVENTS

Isadora Duncan develops Free Dance , a dance technique influenced by the ancient Greeks and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche .

With the support of Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Jacques Villon , Auguste Rodin and others, the first Salon D'Automne opens in Paris as a reaction to the conservatism of the Paris Salon .

WORKS

Cassius Coolidge produces several of his Dogs Playing Poker series of paintings.

During what's known as his "Blue Period", Pablo Picasso paints ''Tête de femme'', ''Vieux guitariste aveugle'' (''The Old Guitar Player''), ''The Tragedy'', and ''La vie'', among others.

Wassily Kandinsky - ''The Blue Rider''

Peder Severin Krøyer - ''Sankthansbål på Skagen strand''

BIRTHS

March 14 - Adolph Gottlieb , American Abstract Expressionist painter.

July 21 - Roy Neuberger , art collector and supporter.

September 25 - Mark Rothko , painter

September 29 - Walter Inglis Anderson , painter

December 24 - Joseph Cornell , American sculptor.

December 30 - Candido Portinari , Brazilian painter.

DEATHS

May 9 - Paul Gauguin , painter.

July 14 - James McNeill Whistler , American painter and etcher.

November 12 or 13 - Camille Pissarro , Impressionist painter