BAYA (Fatma Haddad Mahiedinne) (Algérie, 1931-1998)

Blue bird / Pink bird Gouache and pencil on the back cover of the exhibition catalog. Signed lower left in Latin letters, upper right in Arabic. 29.5 x 20.5 cm In-4°, 20 pp. color illustrated cover, 18 color reproductions of works and 5 B&W portraits of artists; with biographies of the six modern Algerian artists featured in the exhibition, including Denis Martinez and Choukri Mesli, founders of the "Aouchem" group, and other artists grouped under the term "sign painters" defined by Jean Senac. Provenance : Gift from the artist to the current owner. *** Gouache and pencil on the back cover of the exhibition catalog of "Signes et désert", Ipso Gallery, Brussels, 1989. Signed lower left in Latin letters, and upper right in Arabic. 29.5 x 20.5 cm In-4° of 20 pp. with illustrated colour cover, 18 reproductions of works in colour and 5 portraits of artists in B&W; with biographies of the six modern Algerian artists in the exhibition, including Denis Martinez and Choukri Mesli, founders of the "Aouchem" group, and other artists grouped together under the expression "painters of the sign" defined by Jean Senac. Provenance: Given by the artist to the current owner. Ali Silem wrote the introductory text for Baya, the only artist in the catalog without a photograph. He writes Baya's painting is an offering, a sacred painting where all is silence and serenity, total harmony... It is through dreams and by drawing inspiration from the traditional collective imagination that Baya, as a consummate artist, gives birth to her supernatural beings. " *** Ali Silem wrote the introductory text for Baya, the only artist in the catalog without a photograph. He writes Baya's painting is an offering, a sacred painting where all is silence and serenity, a total harmony... It is through dreams and by drawing inspiration from the traditional collective imagination that Baya, as a consummate artist, gives birth to her supernatural beings."