Le Douanier - Rousseau Wall Calendar 2021

Wall calendar 30 x 30cm (opening to hang 30 x 60 cm). Printed on PEFC certified paper and printed in France by the Fine Art specialists - Les Éditions du Désastre. 

The artist -

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a French Post Impressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner.  He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time. Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists.