Self-taught artist Henri Rousseau is the subject of an exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, starring his famed painting The ...

"Surprised!," painted in 1891: A bug-eyed tiger caught off guard by a tropical storm, which lashes the most gorgeously exotic jungle. No other painting does as good a job conveying the "fearful ...

Still Life with Coffee Pot (1910), The Pink Candle (1908), The Cliff (1895), and The Ship in the Storm (1899) extend Rousseau’s painterly edict to simplified form from landscape to object. There is a ...

It all started in the wild. The filmmakers behind “Madagascar” turned to beloved ‘50s and ‘60s animators like Tex Avery, Chuck Jones and Hanna-Barbera, and to period children’s books to imbue their ...

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 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 ...

“I never saw such poverty as I saw in Rousseau’s studio,” recalled the artist Max Weber, one of the first patrons of the self-taught painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910). Having retired early from a job ...

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 post-impressionist and primitivist contemporaries — artists I love. Though I’ve been ...