The last Impressionist exhibition was held in 1886.
The event was the group’s eighth exhibition, staged in Paris from May 15 to June 15, 1886. It took place at the Maison Dorée on the rue Laffitte and marked the end of the Impressionists’ recurring collective shows.
The exhibition reflected growing divisions within the movement. Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Gustave Caillebotte did not participate, while Camille Pissarro invited younger artists such as Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte introduced audiences to a more systematic, developing form of Neo-Impressionism.
A common mix-up is confusing the eighth Impressionist exhibition with later exhibitions by independent artists. The Impressionist group continued to influence art after 1886, but it did not hold another official collective exhibition under that series.