Size: 20" x 24"

Title: Monet at Giverny

Rejected along with me were: Sisley, Pissarro, Renoir, Guillemet, and Monet, who was furious over the hard line the academics had taken toward the dissidents. The shocking reversal after the compromises of the previous Salon d'Automne, was apparently geared for a showdown aimed at putting the radical group out of business permanently. It had the opposite result, making us more resolved than ever to fight back, and intensify out demands for justice. There were the usual frenzied meetings, angry denunciations of the sytem, threats, and a renewed request to the Emperor Louis Napoleon for a repeat of the Salon des Refuses. Aside from this, the ambitious plans to resist the conservatives in their efforts to destroy dissident art, were not followed through, there were no funds, and the determination, so strong at the outset, gradually lost steam, collapsing after a few demonstrations in front of the Palais d'Industrie...

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