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Byline: Leslie Camhi
Critics and public initially mocked the self-taught painter Henri Rousseau's strangely familiar landscapes of far-off places. But all that had changed by 1910, when Rousseau's canvas The Dream-a lush nude reclining amid a welter of exotic blooms and peaceable beasts-was first exhibited. "I think that this year no one will dare laugh," the poet Guillaume Apollinaire wrote. "Henri ...