1909 in art

Events from the year 1909 in art. February 20 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto is first published, in the French newspaper Le Figaro. May–June – Claude Monet's Water Lilies series of paintings are first exhibited, at Paul Durand-Ruel's gallery in Paris. July 22 – Widowed Irish-born painter John Lavery marries Irish American painter Hazel Martyn. Guillaume Apollinaire's first book of poetry is illustrated with woodcuts by André Derain. Léon Bakst begins painting scenery for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, beginning with Cleopatra. Robert Delaunay begins painting his Saint-Sévrin, City and Eiffel Tower series. Lithuanian Jewish sculptor Jacques Lipchitz moves to Paris to study and work. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque create the first works of analytical cubism. Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler established in Düsseldorf. Kunsthalle Mannheim established as a permanent art gallery. Reformation Wall created in Geneva by Swiss architects Charles Dubois, Alphonse Laverrière, Eugène Monod and Jean Taillens with figures by French sculptors Paul Landowski and Henri Bouchard. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky is commissioned by Nicholas II of Russia to begin a record in color photography of his empire. Henri Gaudier meets Sophie Brzeska at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris. Category:1909 sculptures Lawrence Alma-Tadema – A Favourite Custom (Tate Britain) Giacomo Balla – Street Light George Bellows The Lone Tenement Gutzon Borglum – Rabboni (sculpture, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.) Antoine Bourdelle – Hercules the Archer (bronze) Milly Childers – The Terrace (Palace of Westminster) Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Charles Fouqueray – La Reconquista de Buenos Aires J. W.