Henri RousseauFrancia, 1844–1910Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo
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Having never ventured outside France, Henri Rousseau derived his jungle scenes from reading travel books and visiting the Paris botanical garden. He placed this imaginary scene of a tiger attacking a buffalo within a fantastic jungle environment in which botanical accuracy was of little importance (note the bananas growing upside down). Here, sharply outlined hothouse plants are enlarged to fearsome proportions. Rousseau was working on this painting while imprisoned for fraud in December 1907. Officials granted him an early release to finish it for exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants, where this major composition, one of the artist's largest and most important, appeared in March 1908. A self-taught artist and retired customs inspector, Rousseau was admired by Pablo Picasso and other avant-garde artists for his originality and the naïve purity of his vision.
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- 1949.186
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Nella vita di Henri Rousseau
Tutta la vita1893–1910
A studio in Montparnasse
In 1893 Rousseau moved to a studio in Montparnasse, where he lived and worked until his death in 1910.
1907
A commission from Countess Delaunay: “The Snake Charmer”
In 1907 Berthe, Countess Delaunay, mother of the painter Robert Delaunay, commissioned “The Snake Charmer” from Rousseau.
1908
Picasso’s banquet in Rousseau’s honour
Picasso came across a Rousseau painting being sold on the street as a canvas to be painted over, instantly recognised his genius and went to meet him; in 1908 he gave a half-serious, half-burlesque banquet for Rousseau in his Bateau-Lavoir studio, attended by Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, Max Jacob, Marie Laurencin, Juan Gris and others.
1910
“The Dream,” his last painting, at the Salon
In March 1910 Rousseau exhibited “The Dream,” his last painting, at the Salon des Indépendants.
1910
Necker Hospital: gangrene and surgery
In August 1910 Rousseau was admitted to the Necker Hospital in Paris, where his son had died; gangrene was found in his leg. After an operation he died of a blood clot on 2 September.
2 settembre 1910
Died
