The Musée de l'Orangerie is honoring Henri Rousseau, the famous naïve painter, with the exhibition "Henri Rousseau, l'ambition de la peinture" (Henri Rousseau, the ambition of painting), which can be ...

A Painter’s Secrets’ is that rare, magical exhibition that casts a storybook spell,” said Lance Esplund in The Wall Street Journal. It brings together 55 of the paintings of Henri Rousseau, a ...

"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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...