Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris

by Alice Kaplan

The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth.

On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a servant and field worker named Baya escaped the drudgery of her labor by coloring the skirts in fashion magazines. Three years later, in November 1947, her paintings and fanciful clay beasts were featured in a one-woman show at the Maeght Gallery in Paris. She wasn't...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226835081
• ISBN13: 9780226835082
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.