Durand-Ruel sells some of Camille Pissarro's paintings…

Durand-Ruel sells some of Camille Pissarro's paintings in May, but the painter continues to experience financial hardships, which he describes in letters to his eldest son, Lucien; this remarkable correspondence begins in 1883 and will last for twenty years.

Joris-Karl Huysmans, a perceptive art critic, helps win public recognition of the Impressionist painters in L'Art moderne.

This first appearance of the phrase “modern art” in the relatively permanent form of a book title is used by Huysmans to describe the theme of various reviews of painters' work he had collected.