Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Henri Rousseau was ... seriously in his early forties, and by age 49 he ...

Henri Rousseau has been puzzling art lovers since ... Born in the provincial town of Lavan in 1844, Rousseau had a tough early life. The son of a plumber, he saw his family home lost to his ...

It flits from his wide-eyed early paintings of life on the subcontinent to his ... They have more than a dash of Henri Rousseau’s garish, deliberate style, and an air of an Indian Lowry ...

The self-taught painter Henri Rousseau was mocked for ... Towards the end of his life, around the turn of the 20th Century, Rousseau was taken up and championed by artists at the vanguard.

A closer look at Henri Rousseau’s ‘The Merry Jesters’ reveals a complex artwork by a complicated man Henri Rousseau was a customs official who worked at a toll gate and only took up painting ...

A statue comes to life in a magical gallery and falls into the painting 'Surprised!' by Henri Rousseau. Inside the painting she explores Rousseau’s use of imagination in painting, the techniques ...

The self-taught painter Henri Rousseau was mocked ... at the Museum Folkwang, in which Rousseau will play a starring role. Towards the end of his life, around the turn of the 20th Century ...