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Salon des Refusés

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Salon des Refusés

Special art exhibition in Paris 1863 ordered by Napoleon III in response to protests at the rejection of Edouard Manet and others from the official Salon that year. Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe was one of the principal exhibits.

Other artists exhibiting were Eugène Boudin, Paul Cézanne, Henri Fantin-Latour, Johan Bartold Jongkind, Camille Pissarro, and James Whistler.
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Either way, one of the rejected artists, Donald O’Finn, knows some French, and he is mounting a Salon des Refusés de la Bibliothèque de Brooklyn at the condemned bar he manages, Freddy’s, with an opening on Feb.
Deeds and Deals by Observer Staff / The New York Observer
But such were the paradoxes of governmental authority in the arts that the French also provided the means for exhibiting these great painters by creating an official Salon des Refusés, which allowed unorthodox talents to be admitted (albeit on a segregated basis) without the approval of an official jury.
C\'8ezanne, Pissarro: Two Painters Drew From Other's Work by Hilton Kramer / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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