Rare Vintage 1950s Rousseau "Portrait of Pierre Loti" Swiss Art Print

Mid-century reproductions of Rousseau’s Portrait of Pierre Loti (1890).

Commentary on the work circa 1950s: 

PORTRAIT OF PIERRE LOTI (c. 1890). - Needless to say, Rousseau never met the famous novelist; he painted from imagination. The face is built up in juxtaposed planes, which mightily interested the Cubists. It stands out from a background of landscape in which we notice some curious "interlockings" with the main subject; between, for instance, the ear and the tuft of leaves opposite it, between the nearer tree-trunk and the line of the face running up from the ear, and between the trunk on the right and the right side of the face.

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (1844-1910) was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector.