My favourite painting of the Kunstmuseum Basel; negro attacked by a jaguar, 1910 Henri Rousseau.
Henri Rousseau was largely seen as a curiosity -- a naïve, unlearned, uncultured and unsophisticated painter -- but he grew to be a fashionable curiosity, with special interest by Pablo Picasso the writer Guillaume Apollinaire. He was autodidact, "a prodigiously intuitive person", but certainly not uneducated, he himself claimed he had "no teacher other than nature".
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