Dame Louise Etiennette Sidonie Henderson DBE (née Sauze, 21 April 1902 – 27 June 1994) was a noted New Zealand artist and painter. Louise Etiennette Sidonie Sauze was born on 21 April 1902 at Boulogne sur Seine, Paris, France, the only child of Lucie Jeanne Alphonsine Guerin and her husband, Daniel Paul Louis Sauze, secretary to the sculptor Auguste Rodin. Louise remembered how as a child she would go with her father to Rodin's house at Meudon and play with chips of marble while the men talked. In Paris she met her future husband Hubert Henderson, a New Zealander. Hubert returned to New Zealand in 1923 and proposed to Louise, but propriety demanded that a single woman not travel alone to New Zealand. She was married to Hubert by proxy at the British Embassy in Paris before emigrating to New Zealand in 1925 and settling with her husband in Christchurch where she began studies at the Canterbury School of Art. After earning her diploma in 1931 she went on to teach at the school. n 1933 she gave birth to their only child, a daughter Diane. Henderson died in Auckland on 27 June 1994, aged 92 ...Henderson's Canterbury paintings of hills, gorges and architectural forms blend observation with the visual language and aesthetic theories of the European moderns – Manet, Cézanne, Picasso and Braque. Her movement away from the topographical view of the landscape was shared by other local artists such as Alfred Cook, Rita Angus, Roland Hipkins and Christopher Perkins. In 1956 Henderson accompanied her husband to the Middle East when he was appointed a United Nations advisor. For three years she painted in Lebanon, Jordan, Iran and Iraq. She continued to employ a cubist approach, at times almost totally non-figurative, for the rest of her painting life. ...Henderson also frequently worked in tapestry. In the 1960s he designed a wool mural for the New Zealand Room at the Hilton Hotel in Hong Kong and made designs for the... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Henderson) undefined

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