Henri Rousseau, 1908 - Fight between a Tiger and a Buffalo - fine art print

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Having never ventured outside France, Rousseau derived his jungle scenes from reading travel books and visiting the Paris botanical garden. He placed this imaginary scene of a tiger attacking a buffalo within a fantastic jungle environment in which botanical accuracy was of little importance (note the bananas growing upside down). Here, sharply outlined hothouse plants are enlarged to fearsome proportions. Rousseau was working on this painting while imprisoned for fraud in December 1907. Officials granted him an early release to finish it for exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants, where this major composition, one of the artist's largest and most important, appeared in March 1908. A self-taught artist and retired customs inspector, Rousseau was admired by Pablo Picasso and other avant-garde artists for his originality and the naïve purity of his vision.

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The modern art masterpiece was made by the male artist Henri Rousseau in 1908. The original measures the size: Framed: 183 x 203 x 4,5 cm (72 1/16 x 79 15/16 x 1 3/4 in); Unframed: 170 x 189,5 cm (66 15/16 x 74 5/8 in) and was painted with the medium oil on fabric. The artpiece has the following text as inscrption: signed and dated lower right: Henri Rousseau / 1908. Today, the piece of art is part of the digital art collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. With courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art (license - public domain). Moreover, the artwork has the following creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund. The alignment is landscape and has a side ratio of 1.2 : 1, meaning that the length is 20% longer than the width. Henri Rousseau was a male painter of French nationality, whose art style can mainly be assigned to Naive Art Primitivism. The European painter lived for 66 years and was born in 1844 in Laval, Pays de la Loire, France and deceased in 1910 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

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