Henriette Robin (1928-2009) "The Tahitian" Oil on panel

Henriette Robin (1928-2009) "La Tahitienne" Oil on panel
Signed upper right H.Robin, located in Tahiti and dated 1969
The previous owners purchased this painting directly from the artist when they lived in Tahiti as her neighbors.

Painting dimensions, panel only: 57 x 49.5 cm
Dimensions with frame: 59.5 x 51.5 cm

Henriette Robin is known for her paintings of the men and women of the territory and what inspired her in Polynesia.
Her journey took her to many other latitudes before the fenua became the preferred theme of her works.
Born in 1928 in Paris, Henriette Robin is of Italian descent. The war, the German occupation, and the exodus forced Henriette's family to move to Marseille, in the unoccupied zone. Married, she settled in Jeumont in northern France. The couple still lived far from the coconut palms, exotic fruits, and vahinés that would inspire Henriette upon her arrival in Tahiti in 1963.
At the time, she was passionate about the Flemish School. To learn her art, she crossed the Belgian border and worked in artists' studios near Mons. A trip to Brittany tempted her, especially Pont-Aven, where she painted Breton landscapes in the footsteps of Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard, Paul Sérusier, Charles Filiger, etc.
The second part of her work would then be marked by Tahitian pictorial art. She held numerous exhibitions in Paris, but also in Belgium, and later, of course, in Tahiti.
Her name appeared in the world of painting, "La cote des Artistes."
The State Museums of France and Belgium acquired several of her works. In 1965, she won the FRA Angelico first prize for a nativity painting.
Another of her paintings, "Enfant de Tahiti," was acquired by the Mons Museum.
A portrait of a Tahitian woman by Henriette Robin, chosen by the OPT philatelic agency and issued as a stamp in 1974, represented Polynesian painting throughout the world.
Henriette Robin died in 2009 in Tahiti.

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