sentences:  Pelez was a commercial failure in the 1880s, and after the failure of his "L'Humanité" at the Salon of 1896, Pelez became something of a recluse, refusing to exhibit or sell his work.A major exhibition of his work was mounted in Paris, at the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, from 24 September 2009 to 17 January 2010.Among his best known works are "The Mouthful of Bread" and "Grimaces et Misères" (also known as "Les Saltimbanques" (1888)).