Henri Bastin b. 27 June 1896

  • Artist (Painter)
Bastin emerged in the 1950s as a key figure in Australian primitive/naive art.
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exhibited at
Order and Dissent. Works from the Heide Collection
Date
1 July 2008 - 1 March 2009
Place
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC
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exhibited at
Creating Taste: the Collection of Joe and Rose Skinner
Date
18 November 2007
Place
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA
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Common Ground
Date
19 May 2006 - 25 June 2006
Place
Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre, Melbourne, VIC
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Raw and Compelling, Australian Naïve Art-the continuing tradition
Date
4 December 2004 - 23 January 2005
Place
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

and touring

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The Mack Jost Collection
Date
16 July 1988 - 13 August 1988
Place
City of Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, VIC
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Legends and Landscape in Australian Art
Date
9 November 1986 - 14 December 1986
Place
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
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Wonderland- some Naifs
Date
18 November 1983 - 7 December 1983
Place
Albury Regional Art Centre, Albury, NSW
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and touring

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Visions after Light: art in South Australia 1836-1981
Date
18 June 1981 - 2 September 1981
Place
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
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A Collection of Some Early and Some More Recent Paintings by Henri Bastin
Date
18 February 1980 - 1 March 1980
Place
Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
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Henri Bastin
Date
24 October 1979 - 12 November 1979
Place
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
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Henri Bastin
Date
8 September 1979 - 26 September 1979
Place
Bonython Galleries, Adelaide, SA
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Tapestry and the Australian Painter
Date
19 October 1978 - 26 November 1978
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
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Four Naïve Painters
Date
13 May 1978 - 3 June 1978
Place
Bonython Gallery, Adelaide, SA
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Naïve Painters
Date
15 November 1977 - 29 November 1977
Place
Australian Galleries, Melbourne,VIC
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The Innocent Eye
Date
12 December 1975 - 31 January 1976
Place
Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, VIC
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The Bush
Date
15 September 1975 - 30 September 1975
Place
Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
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The Gifts of Patrick White
Date
6 December 1974 - 22 December 1974
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
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Henri Bastin
Date
1 November 1974 - 23 November 1974
Place
Bonython Galleries, Sydney, NSW
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Henri Bastin
Date
11 August 1973 - 18 August 1973
Place
Robert Wardrop Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description
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Naïve Painters Loan Exhibition
Date
14 February 1973 - 28 February 1973
Place
Hawthorn City Art Gallery, VIC
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Henri Bastin
Date
14 November 1972 - 25 November 1972
Place
Max Adams Galleries, Adelaide, SA
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Henri Bastin
Date
11 September 1972
Place
Malvern Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne
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Bastin, Ball, Bayer, Beadle, Bilu
Date
5 March 1972 - 23 March 1972
Place
Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide
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(Naive artists)
Date
30 August 1971 - 10 September 1971
Place
Powell Street Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
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(Henri Bastin)
Date
12 October 1969 - 20 October 1969
Place
Moreton Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
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References [<ExternalResource: Dolan, David (15 September 1979), 'Paradise Found', The Advertiser (Adelaide).>, <ExternalResource: Dutton, Geoffrey (16 October 1979), 'A primitive without peer', The Bulletin (Sydney) pg 94 & 97.>, <ExternalResource: Lehmann, Geoffrey (1977), 'Australian Primitive Painters', Queensland University Press, St. Lucia.>, <ExternalResource: McCaughey, Patrick (27 March 1968), 'Modernists, Tough and Ghostly', The Age (Melbourne) pg 6.>, <ExternalResource: McCulloch, Alan (9 July 1958), 'Meaning of Primitive', The Herald (Melbourne) pg 20.>, <ExternalResource: Pearson, Christopher (1991), 'Aboriginal Representation and Kitsch in Hiller, Susan (ed) The Myth of Primitivism .', Routledge, London pp 326-337.>, <ExternalResource: Riddell, Elizabeth (4 November 1974), 'Henri Bastin, the naïf, is the genuine article', The Australian (Sydney) pg 7.>, <ExternalResource: Unknown (9 July 1958), 'Artist Began in Sheep Shed', The Herald (Melbourne) pg 1.>, <ExternalResource: McCulloch, Alan (1 September 1971), 'Innocence and eloquence', The Herald (Melbourne), pg 25.>, <ExternalResource: National Archives, Canberra (NAA 6951229 Naturalisation Application (1944/4/2576)).>, <ExternalResource: Papers of Dutton, Geoffrey, 'Note from Bastin to Dutton', National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (NLA MS7285).>]