In 1908 he put the first profits of his dealings into For Joseph Brummer it was primarily the exotic qualities in Others present included Brummer, Apollinaire, Delaunay, Soffici, Picasso, Vlaminck, Brancusi, Laurencin, Salmon, Wilhelm Uhde, Serge Férat, Felix Fénéon and many others. own "soirées familiales et artistiques" which became a regular Supplément au voyage de Bougainville, chap. Chtchoukine Collectio - M91ANR depuis la bibliothèque d’Alamy parmi des millions de photos, illustrations et vecteurs en haute résolution. Er gilt als einer der Wegbereiter des Surrealismus. rapports inégaux. Son travail, souvent moqué par les autres artistes et critiques, se fait reprocher son manque de perspective, sa naïveté, en bref son amateurisme. Honoré in the hands of his younger brothers, Ernest and Imre, who had come over from Hungary to join Joseph in 1908. Commencez votre journée en découvrant une œuvre d'art ! D. C. Rich observed, "his approach was far from literal. Henri Rousseau, Le Rêve 1910, huile sur toile, 204,5 x 298,5 cm, New York, The Museum of Modern Art / Henri Rousseau Commencez votre journée en découvrant une œuvre d'art ! Le Douanier Rousseau. Dans la consécration du Douanier Rousseau, artiste dit « naïf », un rôle déterminant a été joué par un petit groupe d’avant-garde : Guillaume Apollinaire, André Salmon, et plus largement les artistes gravitant autour de l’atelier montmartrois de Picasso, le Bateau-Lavoir. The image of Rousseau, the retired "customs officer", as a self-taught Sunday painter was propagated initially by Apollinaire. The image of Rousseau, the retired "customs officer", as a self-taught Sunday painter was propagated initially by Apollinaire. Facebook. It was for Apollinaire the qualities of his work that made his painting "so charming to look at". His work had been exhibited alongside the Fauves at the Salon d'Automne in 1905 and in 1907 he met the collector and critic Wilhelm Uhde who would write an influential monograph on Rousseau in 1911. success in handling tribal art in Paris was considerable. Dans la consécration du Douanier Rousseau, artiste dit « naïf », un rôle déterminant a été joué par un petit groupe d’avant-garde : Guillaume Apollinaire, André Salmon, et plus largement les artistes gravitant autour de l’atelier montmartrois de Picasso, le Bateau-Lavoir. Apollinaire was there with the artist, Marie Laurencin. Peinture : 3000-2600000 € Dessin : 3000-140000 € Estampe : 20-3600 € Sculpture : 18500-130000 € Si vous souhaitez faire estimer une œuvrede Le Douanier Rousseau, nos experts s’en chargent. Rousseau's own exotic iconography was one of the features that attracted the young avantgarde artists of the first decade of this century during their drive towards modernism. between the two versions of Rousseau's other great portrait picture of the period La Muse inspirant le Poète (Certigny 274, Puschkin Few artists had been mocked during their lifetime as Rousseau, and even fewer had faced with equal calm the hail of insults. Partant d'éléments qu'il dispose à la ). Afin que tes loisirs sacrés, dans la lumière réelle. Riproduci. Cela lui vaut le surnom de « douanier ». Tu te souviens, Rousseau, du paysage astèque, Des forêts où poussaient la mangue et l’ananas, Des singes répandant tout le sang des pastèques Et du blond empereur qu’on fusilla là-bas. It was Picasso who gave the style...Rousseau's technique has now become free and without apparent Télécharger cette image : Henri Rousseau (Le Douanier Rousseau), le poète et sa muse (Guillaume Apollinaire et Marie Laurencin), Paris, 1909, huile sur toile. Henri Rousseau est né en 1844 à Laval. Henri Rousseau (Le Douanier Rousseau), The poet and his muse (Guillaume Apollinaire & Marie Laurencin), paris, 1909, oil on canvas. Occasionally a retouching shows where he has altered a branch or inserted a leaf but the sureness of execution matches the sureness Il se rend ensuite à Paris et rêve de devenir peintre. While the Brummer portrait cannot be considered a jungle picture it is interesting that as a background for the "art nègre" dealer Rousseau has selected a rich tapestry of variegated trees, foliage and fauna. Douanier Rousseau - Un pittore nella giungla. It is likely that Brummer met Rousseau through the agency of Max Weber, a fellow student at La Grande Chaumière. construction. In his portrait-paysages the model, often seen full-length, is rendered with great clarity and placed against a landscape background which is generally appropriate to the sitter in both nature and sentiment, and complementary to the pictorial structure of the composition. cit., p. 586). of conception. of Brummer's portrait which is displayed alongside the still unfinished second version of La Muse inspirant le Poète (Fig. By 1908 Rousseau had become a celebrated figure in the Montparnasse In 1974 there was an exhibition of the Brummer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. Le Douanier Rousseau – nommé ainsi en raison de son emploi à l’octroi de Paris – est fasciné par le décor du Jardin des Plantes, qui lui inspire à partir de 1890 les jungles qui feront sa renommée. The insouciant manner in which Brummer holds his cigarette in his right hand adds a bohemian element to the general air of shrewd respectability Brummer radiates. Immediately Brummer became one of the first (and one of the very few) dealers or collectors to buy pictures directly from Rousseau. Il fut surnommé le « Douanier » en raison de sa profession, bien éloignée du monde de l’art. renting a shop at 6 Boulevard Raspail where, alongside the familiar Japanese prints, he displayed the objects of his new passions - African and Oceanic "primitive" sculpture and a few pictures by the "new primitive" Henri Rousseau. aesthetics of African art, Neger plastik by Carl Einstein cit., p. 64). exotic sculptures of African tribal art and the archaic forms of labour. the purely instinctive and observational art of Impressionism. Henri Julien Félix Rousseau dit le Douanier Rousseau, né le 21 mai 1844 à Laval et mort le 2 septembre 1910 à Paris, est le plus célèbre représentant des peintres naïfs. Indépendants jury had seen it by then, Rousseau knew that they Henri Rousseau, dit Le Douanier Rousseau, La Muse inspirant le poète (Guillaume Apollinaire et Marie Laurencin) 1909, huile sur toile, (146 cm x 97 cm), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bâle. Like Gauguin, Rousseau came to full-time painting late in life in 1885, at the age of forty. As only the Brummer was responsible for introducing Apollinaire and Paul Classical Egyptian, Grecian or Roman art. style. At that time the term primitive equally came to be applied to the The post-impressionists sought greater self-expression in their art and also a more cerebral and formal pictorial construction. Other guests were Leo and Gertrude Stein, Braque, Max Jacob, Apollinaire, Laurencin, Salmon, Raynal and many others. When commenting to Picasso on a picture of the Demoiselles On 2 May 1909, after the closure of the Indépendants, Brummer's portrait was brought back to Rousseau's studio where it remained for at least a month before Brummer paid and took collection. While he was too poor to enrol in formal lessons Rousseau always had a healthy respect for the traditions and teachings of the Salon artists. In later years, Brummer was still excited by the picture and remarked "Jamais une oeuvre d'art ancienne ou moderne, n'est passé entre mes mains, qui surpassat cette qualité de noirs." Douanier Rousseau, La Muse inspirant le Poète. Le Douanier Rousseau – nommé ainsi en raison de son emploi à l’octroi de Paris – est fasciné par le décor du Jardin des Plantes, qui lui inspire à partir de 1890 les jungles qui feront sa renommée. "Rousseau réinventé sa flore, et ne fournit en aucune façon la description d'un paysage plausible. His work had been exhibited alongside the Fauves at the Salon d'Automne in 1905 and in 1907 he met the collector and critic Wilhelm Uhde who would write an influential monograph on Rousseau in 1911. temps, pour me récréer, car il est bien ennuyeux de poser, Rousseau me chantait les chansons de sa jeunesse." "[...] un curieux tableau du même douanier Rousseau, une sorte d'apothéose de Guillaume Apollinaire avec, au second plan, une vieiile Marie Laurencin, en guise de Muse. Although this aspect also brought him the label of being a primitive, and therefore apart from the avantgarde circle, he was actually very much in the mainstream of post-impressionist developments. Giorgio de Chirico, Portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire, 1914, Centre Pompidou, Paris. these canvases are mostly finished in a broad painter-like stroke." "Many art objects were obtained for the Metropolitan (over 400 objects), The Cloisters, the Louvre and other leading museums in America and Europe. had liked it and planned to hang it in a good position. On his death in 1947 he bequeathed works of art to the Metropolitan Museum while another section was sold at auction in 1949. Painted in Spring 1909, Joseph Brummer, Paris, 1909 (commissioned from Rousseau and received from the Artist, Three Letters from Rousseau to Brummer in. Less fortunate when it came to exhibits or selling his own paintings (we cannot count the anecdotes revealing the insignificant value, for a long time, acquired when they were taker, for a few francs) Henri Rousseau (aka Douanier Rousseau) finds himself in the big leagues: Delaunay, Kandinsky, Apollinaire, Picasso among his supporters and friends. I in the modern style" --Guillaume Apollinaire and Robert Delaunay. Picasso collected several works by Rousseau and was later to call the Portrait de Femme (Certigny 75) which he owned, "une oeuvre de penetration, de décision et de clarté françaises...l'un des portraits psychologiques français les plus revélateurs." ... ou Guillaume Apollinaire. that were the most remarkable, "les noirs sont des espaces sans Henri Julien Félix Rousseau dit le Douanier Rousseau, né le 21 mai 1844 à Laval et mort le 2 septembre 1910 à Paris, est le plus célèbre représentant des peintres naïfs. Nous t'apportons des pinceaux, des couleurs et des toiles. A passionate artist who lived only for his art, Rousseau was celebrated by his avantgarde contemporaries (who included Brummer) for his to suit his purpose. (Primitivism in 20th Century Art, New York, 1984, p. Il apprend lui-même la peinture et produit un grand nombre de toiles, elles représentent souvent des paysages de jungle, lui qui n'a pourtant jamais quitté la France. parâit avoir été une sorte de nègre blanc, puisqu'il étendait à ses oeuvres son goût des idoles africaines." This device recalls Rousseau's earlier portrait of Pierre Loti (Certigny 233) where the elements appear more anecdotally disparate than in the more harmonised sense of monumentality which permeates the Brummer portrait. care for tribal or classical art but his simplicity and innocence of Son inspiration provient surtout de livres illustrés, de jardins botaniques et rencontres avec des soldats ayant participé à l'intervention française au Mexique. Museum, Moscow; and Certigny 277, Kunstmuseum, Basle). Between the Wars when his gallery was established in New York, Joseph Brummer was instrumental in shaping the collections of celebrated collectors such as Frank Burty Haviland, W. Randolph Hearst, Bradley Martin, Greville Winthrop, Henry Walters and many others. d'Avignon period Rousseau remarked, "You, Pablo and I are the two The decidedly frontal pose of Joseph Brummer in this picture and the unusual device of portraying the sitter full- length on a chair, was perhaps inspired by Cézanne's portrait of Achille Emperaire (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) which Rousseau saw at Henri Rousseau (Le Douanier Rousseau), The poet and his muse (Guillaume Apollinaire & Marie Laurencin), paris, 1909, oil on canvas. Mais, pour gagner sa vie, il exercera un autre métier jusqu’en 1893. European museums and to financing the first major book devoted to the Joseph Brummer also indulged his passion for modern painting by bringing to the New York gallery during the twenties and thirties exhibitions by Brancusi, Derain, Laurens, Matisse, Rouault and Seurat. Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) fut un peintre autodidacte, souvent qualifié de naïf et moqué par ses contemporains, mais admiré par les avant-gardes du XXe siècle. which Apollinaire built up the public conception of Rousseau as the Chtchoukine Collectio - M91ANR depuis la bibliothèque d’Alamy parmi des millions de photos, illustrations et vecteurs en haute résolution. » En 1910 Henri Rousseau vend des tableaux pour plus de 1 000 francs et peut acheter son propre atelier à Paris. Some of the outstanding acquisitions made by these museums in the twenties, thirties and forties owed their rediscovery to the extraordinarily sensitive 'Brummer eye'. artists who were its first discoverers, contributed to the development of an interest in what was called "art nègre" and moreover ensured Precedents for the pictorial juxtaposition of animals with jungle or exotic locations could be found in the art of Bresdin, Delacroix, Gérome and Ingres, all artists whom Rousseau admired and wished to emulate. Passing references were made by Eon who referred to Rousseau showing, "portraits chaotiques" and by Lestranges who noticed, "délirants portraits d'une naiveté si cocassé." He made some 26 jungle pictures in all, mainly executed between 1904-1910. Mais c’est alors que, soupçonné de complicité de vol d’œuvres d’art au Louvre, le poète est emprisonné à la Santé durant une semaine. La muse inspirant le poète est un double portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire et de sa muse Marie Laurencin, réalisé en 1909 par le Douanier Rousseau. While still preserving the effect of precise detail Alfred Barr was to call him "the greatest of American art dealers". funds ran out, Brummer took a variety of short-term jobs in order to Taxé de naïf, il n’en est pas moins admiré par les avant-gardes parmi lesquelles Pablo Picasso – collectionneur de la première heure – ou Guillaume Apollinaire. pictures." signed and dated lower left H Rousseau 1909, oil on canvas In the twenty years preceding the Brummer portrait, Rousseau perfected his technique and artistic conception so that this masterpiece represents the culmination of his portraiture, and draws together the various strands of his art into a distillation which was influential for his avantgarde contemporaries and for subsequent generations of artists. ("The Brummer Brothers: An Instinct for the Beautiful", Art News, New York, Oct. 1974, pp. 2 mai 2018 - Cette épingle a été découverte par Nathan Labat. Hungarian by birth, Joseph Brummer (1883-1947) arrived in Paris in the first years of this century to pursue a career as a sculptor. his avantgarde contemporaries and from the Salon artists he so suggestion; "Pour pouvoir travailler d'après le modèle à l'Academie Matisse il proposa, en paiement, de balayer l'atelier. Cette exposition souhaite explorer l’univers mental et esthétique d’Apollinaire à travers un parcours thématique : du Douanier Rousseau à Matisse, Picasso, Braque ou Delaunay, du cubisme à l’orphisme et au surréalisme, des sources académiques à la modernité, des arts premiers aux arts populaires. Henri Rousseau, dit Le Douanier Rousseau, La Muse inspirant le poète (Guillaume Apollinaire et Marie Laurencin) 1909, huile sur toile, (146 cm x 97 cm), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bâle. I, « Comment le prieur de Notre Dame de la Montagne et Mademoiselle sa sœur rencontrèrent un Huron », p. 116-117 Analyse d’image : Henri Rousseau (dit le douanier), Forêt vierge au soleil couchant ou Nègre attaqué par un léopard, p. 144. richesse qui atteste sa connaissance quasi-scientifique du métier." When his Rousseau was in some La mia lista Condividi. With Rousseau’s Portrait of a Woman in full view, Rousseau was seated on a make-shift thrown while a raucous party took place. Apollinaire Le douanier Rousseau. Les noirs brillent et vivent dans les milliers de verts qui se groupent en formant arbres, taillis, forêts. Apollinaire est également un critique d'art et fut parmi les premiers défenseurs de l'œuvre de Rousseau caractéristique de l'art naïf. supérieure, tout comme chez les surréalistes ses admirateurs." This other portrait is obviously the portrait of Brummer. (Henri Rousseau, New York, 1946, p. 55). occupation. As the other picture being exhibited was La Muse inspirant le Poète, portraying the well-known Apollinaire and Marie Laurencin, it was natural that Brummer's portrait should receive less attention in the as usual less than complimentary notices in the press reviews. Thus began the relationship which culminated in Brummer commissioning this major portrait from Rousseau early in 1909. September 1910 in Paris) war ein autodidaktischer französischer Maler, dessen Stil dem Postimpressionismus und der Naiven Kunst zugeordnet wird. long discussions with his younger artistic colleagues, he started his Issu d’une famille modeste, il a pendant toute sa vie eu du mal à trouver sa place au milieu de la scène artistique contemporaine. Né à Laval dans une famille pauvre, Henri Rousseau s’engage dans l’armée. Brummer was there and it is tempting to identify him as being seated four to Rousseau's left. For Rousseau the landscape element was quite as important as the figure." feature of the last few years of his life. This was probably in 1908. When Rousseau exhibited this portrait of Joseph Brummer at the Salon des Indépendants in 1909 he termed it a "portrait-paysage", a genre which Rousseau had initiated with his famous Moi-même, portrait-paysage self-portrait (Certigny 45) which he painted in 1890 and with which he announced to the world his ambition to be considered a grand master of modern painting. multiplie les contrastes en additionnant les gammes de vert d'une II « Les adieux du vieillard », p.142-3 Voltaire, L’Ingénu, Chap. cit., p. 586). Spesso classificato come un artista naïf, è stato uno dei precursori dell'arte moderna e ispirazione per molti artisti tra cui Picasso, Apollinaire, Delaunay, Kandinsky, Ernst e De Chirico. In Paris he left the gallery at Faubourg St. I in the modern style" --Guillaume Apollinaire and Robert Delaunay. celebrated "Banquet du Douanier Rousseau" in honour of Rousseau at his studio in Le Bateau Lavoir in November 1908. In Blasco Alarçon's later picture of the event, the Rousseau picture owned by Picasso is displayed in a prominent position over the thronelike chair reserved for Rousseau. naïve artist. remarked of Cézanne's pictures, "You know, I could finish all these performances of music and theatrical excerpts by those present. On 23 March, Rousseau asked Brummer for the money to pay for the frame and stated, "Ton portrait a du succès déjà". Instagram. Alfred Jarry, born like Rousseau in Laval, was the first to call Rousseau a primitive and saw distinct parallels in his art with the works of the Italian and Flemish pre-Renaissance primitive artists. Apollinaire hat Henri Rousseau den „Uccello unseres Jahrhunderts“ genannt. Ses toiles montrent une technique élaborée, mais leur aspect enfantin lui valurent beaucoup de moqueries. His enthusiasm for his subject stretched beyond dealing in its artefacts to organising pioneering exhibitions of tribal art in Il La Muse inspirant le poète est un double portrait de Marie Laurencin et Guillaume Apollinaire peint par Henri Rousseau en 1909.Un temps la propriété de Paul Rosenberg, cette huile sur toile est aujourd'hui conservée au Kunstmuseum Basel, à Bâle, en Suisse.. Postérité. Mai 1844 in Laval; 2. The 1890s saw a reaction against Guillaume Apollinaire dit, lors du salon d’Automne ou Le Douanier Rousseau présente Le Rêve : « cette année, personne ne rit, tous sont unanimes : ils admirent. Le tableau est reproduit à la page 53 du numéro du 15 janvier 1914 des Soirées de Paris. (116 x 88.5cm.) Paul Guillaume probably discovered the Douanier Rousseau’s paintings through his friend the poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918). Rousseau's own symbolist and poetic interests, his flat, archaistic forms and expressive content allied him directly with contemporaneous post-impressionist developments. Douanier Rousseau, La muse inspirant le poète, 1909 (portrait de Marie Laurencin et Guillaume Apollinaire). primitivism. Shchukin Collectio 'Portrait de femme', 1895, Le Douanier Rousseau (Henri Rousseau, dit), Picasso Museum, Paris, France, Europe. Le grand coloriste, il va de soi, le dispensa de cette besogne, et l'admit gracieusement parmi ses élèves" (op. content to humour such an elderly novice. Apollinaire connaît le succès en 1910 avec un recueil de contes étranges intitulé l’Hérésiaque et Cie, puis avec Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d’Orphée en 1911. admired. Henri Julien Félix Rousseau, genannt Le Douanier (* 21. Télécharger cette image : Henri Rousseau (Le Douanier Rousseau), le poète et sa muse (Guillaume Apollinaire et Marie Laurencin), Paris, 1909, huile sur toile. Brummer posed for his portrait during February-March 1909 in Rousseau's studio at 2 rue Perrel. Henri Rousseau, le Douanier, avait proposé à Apollinaire de réaliser son portrait. It is a mistake to think of such a setting as merely a decorative convention to fill space. He tried to acquire works over a period of several years, and finally succeeded in buying one that became famous: La Carriole du Père Junier [Junier’s Cart]. c'est que je fais un autre portrait dans le même genre." modern." its diffusion before World War I in a fair number of European developed into a highly personal style which set Rousseau apart from Le poète Guillaume Apollinaire a tracé sur la dalle des vers qui seront ensuite gravés par Constantin Brancusi : Delaunay, sa femme, Monsieur Quéval et moi. Rousseau never went to Mexico (another of Apollinaire's myths), he relied on visits to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris and on his own imagination to create his jungle fauna. Twitter. preoccupation with high surface finish, minute precision and rigid For Delaunay it was Rousseau's powers as a colorist Guillaume to tribal art, he also sold Greek sculpture to Rodin and Portrait de Joseph Brummer (Portrait-paysage) il mesura mon nez, ma bouche, mes oreilles, mon front, mes mains, mon (L'Amour de l'Art, Paris, 1920). Tu les consacres à peindre, comme tu tiras mon portrait. Sa tombe est à Laval dans le jardin de la Perrine. survive but gradually found that selling Japanese prints to his fellow artists and avantgarde associates was an increasingly lucrative artistic conception was perceived as being closely allied in spirit. However, it is certainly correct to state that Rousseau took great care in arranging his models and in selecting the pictorial setting. who was short of money to pay for the lessons, came up with a novel fantasie, avec les changements d'echelle, les 'erreurs' de proportions, les invraisemblances de mise en place, il aboutit à une cohérence At the end he was completely in command of his Rousseau il Doganiere è soprattutto conosciuto per le sue giungle. 2015 Francia. Rousseau began his painting career under the influence of folk art traditions with their Découvrez vos propres épingles sur Pinterest et enregistrez-les. Inspired by his vision he arbitrarily rewove the appearance of nature Rousseau himself did not Rousseau also asked Brummer to come to the vernissage with him on 25 March, two days later. It appears that the picture was painted in the spring of 1909 in A contemporary photograph shows Rousseau standing proudly, palette in hand, in front On 6 45 5/8 x 34¾in. Rousseau somewhat simplistic and contributory in part to the myth-making with urgency to complete it since he intended to exhibit the picture at the Salon des Indépendants. Rousseau's art that appealed, "Pour ce Magyar [Brummer], le Douanier Le Rêve du Douanier Rousseau : focus sur un chef-d’œuvre. The mask-like hieratic features of Brummer's face, rendered with tremendous finesse, resemble to some extent the African sculptures in which he dealt. “You recall, Rousseau, the Aztec landscape the forests where mango and pineapple grow. He wrote a poem on a napkin and recited it to Rousseau’s glee. in La Muse inspirant le Poète, "la preuve de ton tableau plait, La muse inspirant le poète est un double portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire et de sa muse Marie Laurencin, réalisé en 1909 par le Douanier Rousseau.Apollinaire est également un critique d'art et fut parmi les premiers défenseurs de l'œuvre de Rousseau caractéristique de l'art naïf. sur sa toile, les réduisant à la dimension du chassis. Aujourd'hui, avec le Rêve, une icône du Surréalisme, partez en exploration dans les jungles imaginaires du Douanier Rousseau, mort le 2 septembre 1910. 143). Like Gauguin, Rousseau came to full-time painting late in life in 1885, at the age of forty. Laisse passer nos bagages en fraude à la porte du ciel. ; Certigny 237). (M. Hoog in Le Douanier This limited repertoire of visual signals was gradually (op. Hab… On 19 or 20 March, the two pictures were at Les Serres de l'Orangerie for the jury to decide on the hanging. the great Cézanne memorial exhibition of 1907 at which Rousseau Initially working as a stonemason for Rodin in 1907, Certigny relates that to gain entry to Matisse's atelier for instruction, Brummer, Perhaps this recollection is lumière qui agissent sur l'oeil comme des couleurs prismatiques en (Certigny, op. » La muse et le poète » 1909 – le DOUANIER-ROUSSEAU. Il fait payer des taxes sur les marchandises qui entrent dans Paris, comme cela se fait à l’époque.