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This, the earliest biography of French painter Henri Rousseau, was written by the dealer who gave him his first one-man show. A key document of 20th-century art history, it offers an intimate portrait of one of the great originals of painting. Published to coincide with the "Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris" exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, July–October, 2006.

Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) was the first naïve artist in the history of Western art to be recognized for his true worth. His paintings have now entered popular consciousness to such an extent that it is difficult to imagine how strongly they were resisted at the time. Much of the credit for his transformation is due to the author of these Recollections, dealer and art historian Wilhelm Uhde. It was Uhde who mounted the first exhibition of Rousseau’s work, and the catalog he wrote for the occasion is the basis of the Recollections. In it, he painted a picture of a man of naiveté, humor, and total commitment to an art of whose importance he was utterly convinced.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #3045886 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages