Henri Rousseau
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The Snake Charmer, 1907 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris, legs de Jacques Doucet, 1936/© RMN, Paris/© Hervé Lewandowski) Musée d’Orsay, Paris -
Old Junier’s Cart, 1908 (Musée national de l’Orangerie, Paris, Collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume/© RMN, Paris/© Franck Raux) Musée national de l’Orangerie, Paris -
Tropical Forest with Monkeys, 1910 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., John Hay Whitney Collection, 1982/National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Courtesy of the Board of Trustees) National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Courtesy of the Board of Trustees -
Portrait of Monsieur X (Pierre Loti), around 1910 (Kunsthaus Zürich/© 2010 Kunsthaus Zürich) Kunsthaus Zürich -
The Football Players, 1908 (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York -
The Boat in the Storm, after 1896 (Musée national de l’Orangerie, Paris, Collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume/© RMN, Paris/ © Franck Raux) Musée national de l’Orangerie, Paris -
Picasso in his studio in the country house with the Rousseau couple (© 2010 Pablo Picasso/Succession Picasso und André Gomes bei ProLitteris, Zürich/© RMN, Paris/Droits réservés) © 2010 Pablo Picasso / Succession Picasso und André Gomes -
The Muse Inspiring the Poet, 1909 (Kunstmuseum Basel/© 2010 ProLitteris, Zürich und Martin P. Bühler) Kunstmuseum Basel -
The Merry Jesters, 1906 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection) Philadelphia Museum of Art -
Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!), 1891 (The National Gallery, London/© 2010 The National Gallery, London) The National Gallery, London -
Rousseau in his studio in Paris, picture by Picasso, 1910 (2010 Succession Picasso/ProLitteris, Zürich/© RMN, Paris/Droits réservés) © 2010 Succession Picasso / ProLitteris, Zürich -
Jungle with Setting Sun, around 1910 (Kunstmuseum Basel/© 2010 ProLitteris, Zürich und Martin P. Bühler) Kunstmuseum Basel -
The Representatives of Foreign Powers Coming to Greet the Republic, 1907 (Musée national Picasso, Paris, donation Picasso/© RMN, Paris/ © René-Gabriel Ojéda) Musée national Picasso, Paris
A century after the painter's death, the Beyeler Foundation hosts a show of his work.
This content was published on March 31, 2010 - 11:59
Rousseau, originally a French customs official, had no formal art training and painted in his free time. It was years before his art, then considered non-academic and naive, found recognition. The exhibition is made up of around 40 masterworks of this pioneer of Classical Modern art.
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