Lions, and tigers, and bare women. These are some of the figures in the iconic jungle pictures by Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), a self-taught French artist who strove to realize financial and critical ...
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A Once-in-a-Generation Henri Rousseau Exhibition Highlights the Strangeness and Luminosity of His Paintings
There is a tremendous patience in Henri Rousseau (b. 1844), on view as part of a major exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in ...
The Barnes Foundation presents an expansive, enchanting survey that highlights the artist’s magic and sophistication alike.
The year is 1890 and Henri Rousseau, palette in hand, is standing to attention for the occasion of his self-portrait, an arrestingly large picture entitled Myself, Portrait-Landscape. Wearing his ...
A moonlit evening sky and a latticework of bare black trees dwarf two figures in white fancy dress. It looks like a dreamscape, and the picture’s title, A Carnival Evening, just adds to the enigma.
In major museums and their exhibitions, painter Henri Rousseau’s works are often exhibited next to paintings by his ...
THE thing about Henri Rousseau is that he never seems to fit. What to make of a self-taught artist who worked as a clerk in a customs office, took up painting in middle age and conceived of himself as ...
The year is 1890 and Henri Rousseau, palette in hand, is standing to attention for the occasion of his self-portrait, an arrestingly large picture entitled Myself, Portrait-Landscape. Wearing his ...
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