Recollections of Henri Rousseau

Wilhelm Uhde, Nancy Ireson, Ralph Thompson

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English

Pallas Athene Publishers
01 July 2023

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

Series: The Lives of the Artists

The paintings of Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), particularly his astonishing jungle dreams, are now so popular that it is difficult to realize how they were originally greeted with ridicule and incomprehension. It was not until Rousseau was championed by the young avant-garde-Picasso, Delaunay, and Kandinsky, among others-that he came to be recognised at his true worth.

One of the most significant of these early admirers was the dealer and art-historian Wilhelm Uhde. It was Uhde who put on the first one-man show of Rousseau's work, and the catalogue he wrote for the occasion is the basis of these Recollections. Much of what we know about Rousseau comes from these pages, which present a portrayal of a man of naivety, humor, gentleness and total artistic commitment. Uhde returned to his text again and again, refining it and filling out telling details.

An introduction by Nancy Ireson sets the Recollections in context, with an overview of Rousseau's career, the ebb and flow of his reputation, and the part that this polemic and elegiac text played in the creation of a new kind of art.

By: Wilhelm Uhde
Introduction by: Nancy Ireson
Translated by: Ralph Thompson
Imprint: Pallas Athene Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 145mm, Width: 114mm, Spine: 7mm
ISBN: 9781843681625
ISBN 10: 1843681625
Series: The Lives of the Artists
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 01 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Wilhelm Uhde (1874-1947), born in Brandenburg, moved to Paris in 1904, and quickly became involved with the avant-garde. He opened a gallery in 1908, where he showed Picasso, Braque, Delaunay and others, and wrote the first book on Rousseau in 1911. As an enemy alien his collection was confiscated by the French state and later sold. He organized the first exhibition of nai ve art in 1928, and his involvement with one of the artists was the theme of the 2008 film Se raphine. In hiding for much of the war, he died in Paris shortly after.