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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- "Henri Rousseau: A Painter's Secrets" explores the mystery that surrounds the artist. "We really want you to feel that curiosity as you come into the space," says Nancy Ireson, ...

"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 ...

In 1893, a French toll worker named Henri Rousseau quit his job to pursue painting. The untrained artist produced imaginative portraits, landscapes and jungle scenes, submitting them to Paris’ ...

There is a tremendous patience in Henri Rousseau (b. 1844), on view as part of a major exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. His Rendezvous in the Forest (1889) meticulously reproduces ...

Henri Rousseau, known as Le Douanier Rousseau (the customs officer), was born in Laval (western France) in 1844 and died in Paris in 1910, and has enjoyed widespread fame for over a century. His ...

In early 1955, as he entered the final years of his legendary career at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Alfred H. Barr Jr. was asked by his old Harvard mentor, Paul Sachs, to identify his most ...

Henri Rousseau gave up his day job as a low-ranking collector of tax on wine unloaded from boats on the Seine, in Paris, in 1893, when he was 49. He wanted to devote himself full-time to his passion ...

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The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...