A reclining nude in a lush jungle, surrounded by lions and exotic flora — painted by a self-taught French customs officer who never left Europe. Rousseau's imagination was its own continent. Now a 1.25-inch hard enamel pin with a gold-plated frame. Double-posted for security.
- 1.25" hard enamel pin
- Gold-plated frame
- Double-posted
- By Real Sic
About The Dream by Henri Rousseau
Rousseau painted The Dream in 1910 — the last major work of his life, completed the year he died. It shows a woman named Yadwigha reclining on a red velvet sofa in the middle of a lush jungle, charmed by a snake charmer in the moonlight. Rousseau, a self-taught painter dismissed by critics as a "naïf" during his lifetime, claimed never to have visited the tropics; his jungle imagery came from botanical gardens, illustrated magazines, and imagination. Picasso, who admired him deeply, organized a banquet in his honor in 1908 that became one of the legendary parties of the Parisian avant-garde. The Dream now belongs to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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