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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Citations

  • Dolan, David (15 September 1979), 'Paradise Found’, The Advertiser (Adelaide).

  • Dutton, Geoffrey (16 October 1979), 'A primitive without peer’, The Bulletin (Sydney) pg 94 & 97.

  • Lehmann, Geoffrey (1977), 'Australian Primitive Painters’, Queensland University Press, St. Lucia.

  • McCaughey, Patrick (27 March 1968), 'Modernists, Tough and Ghostly’, The Age (Melbourne) pg 6.

  • McCulloch, Alan (9 July 1958), 'Meaning of Primitive’, The Herald (Melbourne) pg 20.

  • Pearson, Christopher (1991), 'Aboriginal Representation and Kitsch in Hiller, Susan (ed) The Myth of Primitivism .’, Routledge, London pp 326-337.

  • Riddell, Elizabeth (4 November 1974), 'Henri Bastin, the naïf, is the genuine article’, The Australian (Sydney) pg 7.

  • Unknown (9 July 1958), 'Artist Began in Sheep Shed’, The Herald (Melbourne) pg 1.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1 September 1971), 'Innocence and eloquence’, The Herald (Melbourne), pg 25.

  • National Archives, Canberra (NAA 6951229 Naturalisation Application (1944/4/2576)).

  • Papers of Dutton, Geoffrey, 'Note from Bastin to Dutton’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (NLA MS7285).

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