Henri Rousseau, the ambition of painting: an exhibition on the Douanier at the Musée de l'Orangerie

The Musée de l'Orangerie is honoring Henri Rousseau, the famous naïve painter, with the exhibition "Henri Rousseau, ...
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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 Philadelphia. His Rendezvous in the Forest (1889) meticulously reproduces ...

Albert C. Barnes loved Henri Rousseau’s ‘honesty of approach.’ So he built one of the world’s largest Rousseau collections.

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 ...
Artnet

Christie’s S.I. Newhouse and 20th-Century Sale Jointly Net $507 Million, Signaling a Cautious Market That’s Still Willing to Shell Out for Rarities

The sale was led by Henri Rousseau's jungle painting 'Les Flamants,' which sold for $43.6 million. Henri 'Le Douanier' Rousseau, Les Flamants (1910). Estimated ...
The Daily Telegraph

Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

When Paris went wild

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 ...