"Which French Post-Impressionist painter produced the works ""Surprised!"", ""In a Tropical Forest"", ""Combat of a Tiger and a Buffalo"" and ""The Football Players""?"
Tiger in a Tropical Storm Tiger in a Tropical Storm Tiger in a Tropical Storm or Surprised! is an 1891 oil-on-canvas painting by Henri Rousseau. It was the first of the jungle paintings for which the artist is chiefly known. It shows a tiger, illuminated by a flash of lightning, preparing to pounce on its prey in the midst of a raging gale. Unable to have a painting accepted by the jury of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, Rousseau exhibited "Tiger in a Tropical Storm" in 1891 under the title "Surpris!", at the Salon des Indépendants, which was unjuried and open to all
Tiger in a Tropical Storm (c. 1895), in which humans are the predators; "Jungle with Buffalo Attacked by a Tiger" (1908); and "Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo" (1908). His work continued to be derided by the critics up to and after his death in 1910, but he won a following among his contemporaries: Picasso, Matisse, and Toulouse-Lautrec were all admirers of his work. Around 1908, the art dealer Ambroise Vollard purchased "Surprised!" and two other works from Rousseau, who had offered them at a rate considerably higher than the 190 francs he finally received. The painting was later purchased by the National Gallery,