In 1893, a French toll worker named Henri Rousseau quit his job to pursue painting. The untrained artist produced imaginative ...

“Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets” is a major retrospective featuring almost 60 paintings from institutions around the world. It was put together by the Barnes Foundation, which has the largest ...

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 ...

A closer look at Henri Rousseau’s ‘The Merry Jesters’ reveals a complex artwork by a complicated man Henri Rousseau was a customs official who worked at a toll gate and only took up painting in his ...

A statue comes to life in a magical gallery and falls into the painting 'Surprised!' by Henri Rousseau. Inside the painting she explores Rousseau’s use of imagination in painting, the techniques ...

Tax collector-turned-Post-Impressionist artist, Henri Rousseau was a self-taught painter known for his Naive works. Though it took time for his style, which was often described as simplistic and ...

As explained in the exhibition Directed by Rembrandt, currently on view at the Rembrandthuis Museum in Amsterdam, the 17th-century Dutch painter could spend up to two days binding a turban worn by one ...

The self-taught painter Henri Rousseau was mocked for his clumsy compositions and awkward perspectives. But if he had been trained, modern art as we know it might never have happened, writes Alastair ...

French post-impressionist Henri Rousseau’s oil-on-canvas painting Les Flamants is expected to fetch between US$20 million and US$30 million at an upcoming Christie’s auction in New York. The pre-sale ...