The Barnes Foundation offers a comprehensive yet non-chronological overview of his oeuvre, inviting visitors to explore the ...

A new exhibition freshly contextualizes many artworks in the light of his personal story, while conservators conducted ...

"Henri Rousseau: A Painter's Secrets," at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, brings together the artist's work from museums across the country and around the world. Here are some of the works ...

Three paintings by Henri Rousseau seem to capture both the technique and elusiveness of the French artist: The Sleeping Gypsy (1897), Unpleasant Surprise (1899–1901), and The Snake Charmer (1907). The ...

His naïve style landed him outside the firmament, but his painterly innocence was more seductive — and intentional — than ...

“Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets,” a thematic survey of 55 paintings and one lithograph at the Barnes Foundation, is that rare, magical exhibition that casts a storybook spell. In the first ...

“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 ...

Henri Rousseau, La charmeuse de serpents, 1907, oil on canvas, 167 x 189.5 cm. Paris, Musée d’Orsay. © RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski ...

One of the most famous stories regarding Henri Rousseau goes something like this: Picasso, after finding Rousseau’s large-scale Portrait of a Woman (1895) for sale as canvas reuse, hosted a roaring ...

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 ...