Lot Essay
Pissarro was the most politically active of the older generation of Impressionists, and his attraction to the Neo-Impressionist movement during the mid-1880s demonstrates his interest in new stylistic developments in painting, as well as his ongoing social concerns, which were a significant part of the Neo-Impressionist agenda. This drawing is a preliminary study for the album of anarchist drawings entitled Turpitudes sociales, which Pissarro executed in 1890.