Vallier, Dora

Henri Rousseau / Dora Vallier - New York : Harry N. Abrams, Inc. , c1964 - 327p. : illus. ; 30 cm

Life. Earliest paintings ; At the Salon des Indépendants ; Influence of the Paris World's Fair of 1889 ; Rousseau's painting from 1890 to 1895 ; Meeting with Alfred Jarry: War ; The sleeping gypsy ; The last years ; The trial ; Rousseau and Apollinaire ; The banquet at Picasso's studio ; Evenings at Rousseau's studio -- Work. First period: 1885-1890 ; Second period: after 1890 ; Rousseau's creative imagination: War, The sleeping gypsy ; Last period: Tropical landscapes -- Rousseau's writings. Note ; Excerpt from A visit to the 1889 Fair ; Excerpt from A Russian orphan's revenge -- Works exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants 1886-1910 -- Works exhibited at the Salon d' Automne 1905-1907 -- Exhibitions -- Chronology.

Henri Julien Felix Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner. He is also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer) after his place of employment.


English


Rousseau, Henri (, 1844-1910)


Art, primitive
Painters, French

REF 759.4 ROU