Alfred Sisley exhibits fourteen paintings at a…

Alfred Sisley exhibits fourteen paintings at a one-man show at the offices of La Vie Moderne but does not exhibit with the Impressionists.

The sixth Impressionist group exhibition is held in Paris at No. 5 boulevard des Capucines; thirteen artists participate, but it is soon evident that group shows can no longer accommodate the growing diversity.

Camille Pissarro exhibits eleven landscapes.

Bethe Morisot exhibits seven paintings and pastels; she will spend the summer in Bougival and the winter in Nice.

After 1880, Edgar Degas had begun practicing occasionally as a sculptor, and his exhibits at the sixth group show include a statuette—The Little Dancer of 14 Years—and seven other works.

Mary Cassatt joins the Impressionists in the 1881 show.

Like Degas, Cassatt shows great mastery of drawing, and also is innovative and inventive in exploiting the medium of pastels.

Both artists prefer unposed asymmetrical compositions.

Paul Gauguin's invitation to the 1880 show is repeated in '81.

Taking his starting point from Paul Cézanne's style of about 1880, Gauguin passes from a capricious personal type of Impressionism to a greater use of symbols.

From 1876, he had developed a taste for the contemporary avant-garde movement of Impressionism, and by 1881 has assembled a personal collection of paintings by such figures as Manet, Cézanne, Pissarro, Monet, and Jongkind.

He spends holidays painting with Pissarro and Cézanne and begins to make visible progress.

During this period he also enters a social circle of avant-garde artists that includes Manet, Degas, and Renoir.