Late Impressionism

Monet's Series and the End of the Group

Monet at Giverny, the water garden and Seurat's new method

After the last group exhibition in 1886, the Impressionists went separate ways. Monet made the series, many paintings of one motif, his main form. These works show changing light, atmosphere and thick, visible paint, and end with Pissarro's late garden and Seurat's break from the movement.

• The group held eight independent exhibitions between 1874 and 1886, with nine to thirty artists taking part.
• Monet settled at Giverny in 1883 and found most of his later subjects close to home.
• At the 1886 exhibition Seurat's circle, Pissarro among them, showed a new dot-based method.

Neo-Impressionism

Fénéon's 1886 name for Seurat's method of small, planned touches of color.

One-artist exhibition

A show of one living artist's work; Durand-Ruel's format for each Monet series.

Works in this part

• Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son
• Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)
• The Four Trees
• Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, Sunlight
• The Houses of Parliament, Sunset
• Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies
• Water Lilies
• Weeping Willow
• The Artist's Garden at Eragny
• A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

Image: Art Institute of Chicago Open Access · Public domain