Serious Talk - Hamilton

Maker
Louise Etienne Sidonie Henderson
Production date
1976
Description
This painting marks a particular period in Louise Henderson’s ouevre where she became interested in documenting scenes of urban polynesian life. Here the artist has used a free gestural style with pastel to capture the immediacy of the scene. Henderson was considered a leading modernist in New Zealand and produced a number of works like this one that combined elements of her early cubist abstract methodology with a looser, unrestrained approach.

Louise Etiennette Sidonie Sauze (1902-1994) was born in Paris. Her father was secretary to sculptor Auguste Rodin, providing access to the French art scene. After graduating as a designer in 1921 Henderson became a contributor to a number of magazines and journals. She then met and later married Hubert Henderson, and joined him in New Zealand in 1925. From 1926 to 1941 Henderson taught at the Canterbury College School of Art and began painting in earnest. Over the following years Henderson studied at various schools in New Zealand and overseas and had solo exhibitions all over the world. She received numerous accolades over her career including a DBE the year before she passed away.

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