The final group exhibition of the Impressionists was also the debut of something new: Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte hung in the last room, its dots of pure color announcing Neo-Impressionism to a baffled public. Monet, Renoir and Sisley stayed away; Degas, Pissarro, Morisot, Cassatt, Gauguin and Redon showed.
Impressionism's group identity dissolved at the very moment its successor movement stepped on stage, the torch passing visible in a single room.
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