Word: douanier
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...private collection; of a stroke; in West Chester, Pa. Because a bullet wound paralyzed his right arm in World War I, Pippin had to paint his quaint, rugged primitives by supporting his right hand with his left, did it well enough to be compared favorably with famed primitive painters Douanier Rousseau and John Kane...
French critics have compared her pre-Vittel paintings to those of Douanier Rousseau, her later pencil portraits to Fouquet's. In an age of sweeping confusion in art her pictures were at least disarmingly limited and nicely drawn...
...Bignou Gallery saw 28 bright-toned, very rudimentary, intensely feminine paintings of gesticulating figures, dreamlike landscapes, surrealistic enigmas, glimpses of children's games. Some of the canvases looked as if they had been painted by the children in them; some were reminiscent of the French primitive, Le Douanier Henri Emilien Rousseau, or of French Modernist Marie Laurencin. Wrote Art Connoisseur Frank Crowninshield in one of the catalogue's two forewords (the other was written by Correspondent John Gunther) : "A curious and evocative order of magic; a gift of divination . . . the feeling of rhythm, or flow...
...port, ornate buildings with leaning façades, a bus looking like an enlarged caterpillar, a self-portrait revealing a jaundiced gentleman with jet hair. Critics were enchanted. They could not fail to make comparisons with the pigmental innocence and charm of France's late, great "primitive" Henri "Douanier" Rousseau...
Hoofs clattered in the distance. A small cavalcade trotted down a dusty road. A startled douanier, standing in the door of his office stared up into the square faces of grey-coated horsemen riding past...