Events
- February (approx.) - Fourth annual exhibition of Les XX, at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels. Artists invited to show in addition to members of the group include Walter Sickert, Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot and Georges-Pierre Seurat. The major work shown is Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
- March 26–June 8 - Third exhibition by the Société des Artistes Indépendants in Paris.
- November 14 - Paul Gauguin returns to Paris from Martinique.
- December (approx.) - Vincent van Gogh arranges an exhibition of paintings by himself, Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, and (probably) Toulouse-Lautrec in the Restaurant du Chalet, 43 Avenue de Clichy, Montmartre, Paris. Bernard and Anquetin sell their first painting; van Gogh exchanges work with Gauguin.
- Vincent van Gogh begins his first Sunflowers series of paintings in Paris.
- Walter Crane illustrates "The Architecture of Art" (included in his Claims of Decorative Art, printed later).
- Charles Lang Freer’s first Asian art purchase is a painted Japanese fan.
- Sir John Everett Millais' painting Bubbles is acquired for advertising purposes by Pears soap.
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