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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Name
Henri Bastin
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Other Occupation
  • Camel driver (ANZSIC code: 0529)
  • Station hand (ANZSIC code: 0529)
  • Miner (ANZSIC code: B)
  • Blacksmith (ANZSIC code: 2210)
  • Carpenter (ANZSIC code: 3242)
Birth date
27 June 1896
Birth place
Châtelet Faubour, Belgium
Death date
28 September 1979
Death place
Henley Beach, Adelaide, SA
Burial place
Lawnton Cemetery, Pine Rivers, Brisbane, QLD
Active Period
  • 1950 - 1970
Arrival
  • 1919
Residence
  • Châtelet Faubour, Belgium
  • Adelaide, SA
  • Melbourne, VIc
  • Carnarvon District, WA
  • Mt Isa, QLD
  • Brisbane, QLD
  • Bundaberg, QLD
  • Broken Hill, NSW
Training
Cultural Heritage
  • Belgian
Languages
  • English

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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).>]