
The Dream
1910 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Rousseau painted this in the last year of his life and explained that the woman on the sofa is dreaming herself into the jungle.
★ 8.3

Rousseau painted this in the last year of his life and explained that the woman on the sofa is dreaming herself into the jungle.

Brown and grey planes rebuild a violin into a lattice, painted while Braque and Picasso were working almost as one person.

Monkeys look out from between giant leaves in a jungle Rousseau assembled from the Paris botanical gardens, the zoo, and illustrated books.