Le Douanier HENRI ROUSSEAU avec ERIK SATIE

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 September 2, 1910) was a French PostImpressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer) after his place of employment. Rousseau started painting seriously in his early forties, and by age 49 he retired from his job to work on his art fulltime. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a selftaught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. He claimed he had no teacher other than nat