The Sleeping Gypsy
The Sleeping Gypsy
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Size: Various Sizes AvailableOriginal dimension: 200.7 x 129.5 cm
Year: 1897
Location: Private Collection, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, USMedium: oil, canvasStyle: Naïve Art (Primitivism)Genre: Genre paintingType: ReproductionArtist: Henri RousseauDelivery Time: 14-21 daysItem #: R-HR-001The Sleeping Gypsy (French: La Bohémienne endormie) is an 1897 oil painting by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping woman on a moonlit night.
Rousseau first exhibited the painting at the 13th Salon des Indépendants, and tried unsuccessfully to sell it to the mayor of his hometown, Laval. Instead, it entered the private collection of a Parisian charcoal merchant where it remained until 1924, when it was discovered by the art critic Louis Vauxcelles. The Paris-based art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler purchased the painting in 1924, although a controversy arose over whether the painting was a forgery. It was acquired by art historian Alfred H. Barr Jr. for the New York Museum of Modern Art.
Rousseau described his painting as follows: "A wandering Negress, a mandolin player, lies with her jar beside her (a vase with drinking water), overcome by fatigue in a deep sleep. A lion chances to pass by, picks up her scent yet does not devour her. There is a moonlight effect, very poetic.""The Sleeping Gypsy" by Henri Rousseau can be reproduced with the same emotions of the original masterpiece. In our in-house studio artists carefully recreate the painting detail-by-detail, colour-by-colour to near perfection.
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