Description
During his Paris years (1886-1888), Vincent van Gogh interacted frequently with Pissarro, Seurat, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Vincent viewed these artists as outsiders like himself, misunderstood and rejected by conventional gallerists and patrons. Vincent called this circle of young artists “painters of the petit boulevard” in opposition to the established Impressionists of “the grand boulevard”: Monet, Degas, Renoir. He conceived the idea of his fellow artists joining him in group exhibitions and forming an artistic community—a vision that never came to pass.
