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Article: "Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris".(Exhibition note)
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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"Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris"
National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.
July 16, 2006-October 15, 2006
Henri Rousseau, whose enchanting yet untutored painting produced some of the most imaginative works of the early years of the twentieth century, is the subject of a major retrospective at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. The show offers visitors an opportunity to revisit forty-nine paintings, including twenty of the artist's famous jungle pictures, and helps us to understand the sources of Rousseau's vision in the popular culture of his time.
Rousseau, an unlikely figure to have become an important artist in a ...