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The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope
The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope ("Le lion ayant faim se jette sur l'antilope") is a large oil-on-canvas painting created by Henri Rousseau in 1905. Following "Scouts Attacked by a Tiger" the previous year, "The Hungry Lion" was the second jungle painting to mark Rousseau's return to this genre after a 10-year hiatus caused by the generally negative reception to his 1891 painting "Tiger in a Tropical Storm".
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, an artist that Picasso knew and admired and who was not a Fauve, had his large jungle scene "The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope" also hanging near the works by Matisse and which may have had an influence on the particular sarcastic term used in the press. Vauxcelles' comment was printed on 17 October 1905 in the daily newspaper "Gil Blas", and passed into popular usage.
Although the pictures were widely derided—"A pot of paint has been flung in the face of the public", declared