HENRI ROUSSEAU: “The dream”, 1910- oil on canvas, 204.5 - 298.5 cm. - New York, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (www.moma.org)

Atemporal and incredibly suggestive, “The Dream” is a sensational painting that reunites in itself all the magic and fantasy of the Art by Le Douanier Rousseau, who explained the work with this suggestive speech: “The woman in the sofa dreams that she has been transferred to this forest and she listens to the sound of the snake charmer…”

The origins of these fantastically exotic works are so complex that they would force us to an impossible trip within the mind of Le Douanier Rousseau, inhabited by the admiration for Baudelaire's “The flowers of the evil”, the poetries of his friend Apollinaire, and the fascination by the wild nature so typical of the Bohemian artists of end of the 19 th century.