Camille Pissarro has for the past five…
1890 CE
Overwhelmingly discouraged by their continuing state of poverty, Madame Pissarro considers drowning herself and their two youngest children.
Pissarro finally abandons the style in 1890, not, however, because of the opposition he meets but because "it was impossible to be true to my sensations and consequently to render life and movement, impossible to be faithful to the effects, so random and so admirable, of nature".
At about this time, there is an estrangement from Paul Gauguin, who had formerly worked at his side but now is involved with the new Symbolist movement.
Pissarro exhibits with Boussod & Valadon, and illustrates the anarchist Les Turpitudes Sociales, a powerful attack on French bourgeois society.
Félix Fénéon introduces him to the critic Georges Lecomte.
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