Paul SÉRUSIER. Portrait of Paul Ranson in Nabi. 1890. 60 X 45. Private Collection 
Paul Signac. Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890. 1890. 74 X 98. New York Museum of Modern Art It would be a mistake, which too often have fallen revolutionaries best intentions, like Proudhon, that require a systematic trend in specific social works of art, because this trend is much stronger and more eloquent in pure aesthetes, revolutionaries by temperament, away from the beaten track, paint what they see, as they feel and give unconsciously very often a strong sod the old social edifice which cracks and crumbles and a rotten old abandoned cathedral.
Paul Signac. "Variety, Impressionists and revolutionary." Uprising, June 13, 1891
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