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Rousseau's dreamlike scene shows a lion sniffing a sleeping musician under a full moon in a still desert. Naïve, eerie and poetic, its flat clarity feels closer to a dream than reality. Self-taught, Rousseau enchanted the modernists who followed.
The Sleeping Gypsy
- Date1897
- MovementNaïve Art
- WhereMuseum of Modern Art, New York
- RegionUnited States