Henri Bastin b. 27 June 1896

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Bastin emerged in the 1950s as a key figure in Australian primitive/naive art.
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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).>]