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MAHIEDDINE BAYA (1931 - 1998)
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MAHIEDDINE BAYA (1931 - 1998)
Maternity, 1968
Watercolour and gouache on paper, signed and dated lower right, countersigned on the back
100 x 73 cm
39 3/8 x 28 47/64 in.
Mahieddine Baya
Born near Algiers, Baya (1931-1998) was orphaned at the age of five and soon lived with Marguerite Caminat, a French painter living in Algeria. She then executes characters and fantastic animals out of clay which will be shown to Aimé Maeght of passage in Algiers in 1943.
At the age of sixteen, she had her first solo exhibition at the Maeght Gallery in Paris in 1947, the catalogue of which was prefaced by André Breton. It was an immediate success and she met Braque, Picasso and the Paris art society.
In 1948, while making pottery and ceramics at the Madoura studio in Vallauris, she met Picasso. It was then that she switched to watercolours on paper. Women, flowers and birds inhabit her works and impregnate her work with a marvellous and paradisiacal dimension. Baya will then be associated in the History of Art with the naïve painters, primitivism and art brut. She exhibited regularly in Algiers and Paris (Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Alger in 1963, Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1964).
Maternity painted in 1968 testifies of an exceptional softness in the curves and the choice of the colors. Baya's interpretation of a traditional theme from the History of Art is balanced by the fantastic aspect of the figures and the imaginary vegetation at the heart of which the mother and child seem to float.
Maternity, 1968
Watercolour and gouache on paper, signed and dated lower right, countersigned on the back
100 x 73 cm
39 3/8 x 28 47/64 in.
Mahieddine Baya
Born near Algiers, Baya (1931-1998) was orphaned at the age of five and soon lived with Marguerite Caminat, a French painter living in Algeria. She then executes characters and fantastic animals out of clay which will be shown to Aimé Maeght of passage in Algiers in 1943.
At the age of sixteen, she had her first solo exhibition at the Maeght Gallery in Paris in 1947, the catalogue of which was prefaced by André Breton. It was an immediate success and she met Braque, Picasso and the Paris art society.
In 1948, while making pottery and ceramics at the Madoura studio in Vallauris, she met Picasso. It was then that she switched to watercolours on paper. Women, flowers and birds inhabit her works and impregnate her work with a marvellous and paradisiacal dimension. Baya will then be associated in the History of Art with the naïve painters, primitivism and art brut. She exhibited regularly in Algiers and Paris (Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Alger in 1963, Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1964).
Maternity painted in 1968 testifies of an exceptional softness in the curves and the choice of the colors. Baya's interpretation of a traditional theme from the History of Art is balanced by the fantastic aspect of the figures and the imaginary vegetation at the heart of which the mother and child seem to float.