Henri Rousseau : essays /
Henri Rousseau : essays /
Roger Shattuck ... [et al. ; translations from the French by Richard Miller]
- New York : Boston : Museum of Modern Art ; Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books, 1985
- 269 p. : illus.; 25 cm
Exhibition held at Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, September 14, 1984-January 7, 1985; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 21-June 4, 1985. Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 265-267.
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time.
English
0870705652
Rousseau, Henri, 1844-1910 --Exhibitions
Primitivism in art--France--Exhibitions
759.4 ROU
Exhibition held at Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, September 14, 1984-January 7, 1985; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 21-June 4, 1985. Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 265-267.
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time.
English
0870705652
Rousseau, Henri, 1844-1910 --Exhibitions
Primitivism in art--France--Exhibitions
759.4 ROU
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