![]() here one evening in the year 1908 unrolled the pageantry of the first and last banquet offered by his admirers to the painter Henri Rousseau called the Douanier. here in these shadowy corridors lived the true worshippers of fire. here fraternized the poets elevated by serious criticism into the School of the Rue Ravignan. here the Demoiselles d'Avignon halted in their dance to re-group themselves in accordance with the golden number and the secret of the fourth dimension. here the days of the Rose Period flowered. Here the nights of the Blue Period passed. Years later the French writer André Salmon recalled the setting of the illustrious banquet: Maurice Raynal, in Les Soirées de Paris, 15 January 1914, p. 69, wrote about "Le Banquet Rousseau". Guests at the banquet Rousseau included: Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Metzinger, Juan Gris, Max Jacob, Marie Laurencin, André Salmon, Maurice Raynal, Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler, Leo Stein, and Gertrude Stein. Its subsequent fame grew from the fact that it was a colorful happening within a revolutionary art movement at a point of that movement's earliest success, and from the fact that it was attended by individuals whose separate influences radiated like spokes of creative light across the art world for generations." Le Banquet Rousseau, "one of the most notable social events of the twentieth century," wrote American poet and literary critic John Malcolm Brinnin, "was neither an orgiastic occasion nor even an opulent one. In 1908, Picasso held a half serious, half burlesque banquet in his studio at Le Bateau-Lavoir in Rousseau's honour. When Pablo Picasso happened upon a painting by Rousseau being sold on the street as a canvas to be painted over, the younger artist instantly recognised Rousseau's genius and went to meet him. In 1907, he was commissioned by artist Robert Delaunay's mother, Berthe, Comtesse de Delaunay, to paint The Snake Charmer. Rousseau's painting may even have influenced the naming of the Fauves. In 1905, Rousseau's large jungle scene The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope was exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants near works by younger leading avant-garde artists such as Henri Matisse, in what is now seen as the first showing of The Fauves. In 1897, he produced one of his most famous paintings, La Bohémienne endormie ( The Sleeping Gypsy). In 1893, Rousseau moved to a studio in Montparnasse where he lived and worked until his death in 1910. Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!) was exhibited in 1891, and Rousseau received his first serious review when the young artist Félix Vallotton wrote: "His tiger surprising its prey ought not to be missed it's the alpha and omega of painting." Yet it was more than a decade before Rousseau returned to depicting his vision of jungles. Career Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!) (1891) was the first of many jungle scenes for which Rousseau is best known.įrom 1886, he exhibited regularly in the Salon des Indépendants, and, although his work was not placed prominently, it drew an increasing following over the years. His wife died in 1888 and he married Josephine Noury in 1898. In 1871, he was appointed as a collector of the octroi of Paris, collecting taxes on goods entering Paris. In 1868, he married Clémence Boitard, his landlord's 15-year-old daughter, with whom he had six children (only one survived). With his father's death, Rousseau moved to Paris in 1868 to support his widowed mother as a government employee. Īfter high school, he worked for a lawyer and studied law, but "attempted a small perjury and sought refuge in the army." He served four years, starting in 1863. Though mediocre in some of his high school subjects, Rousseau won prizes for drawing and music. He attended Laval High School as a day student, and then as a boarder after his father became a debtor and his parents had to leave the town upon the seizure of their house. Rousseau was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, in 1844 into the family of a tinsmith he was forced to work there as a small boy. Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists. Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. He started painting seriously in his early forties by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. Henri Julien Félix Rousseau ( French: – 2 September 1910) was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. Post-Impressionism, Naïve art, Primitivism ![]() The Sleeping Gypsy, Tiger in a Tropical Storm, The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope, Boy on the Rocks
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