156 - Paul-Elie DUBOIS (1886–1949). Hoggar (Algeria). Large oil on hardboard, signed lower right, inscribed with the location and dated “38.” 114 x 146 cm. There is a pencil sketch on the reverse.

Paul-Elie DUBOIS (1886–1949). Hoggar (Algeria). Large oil on hardboard, signed lower right, inscribed with the location and dated “38.” 114 x 146 cm. There is a pencil sketch on the reverse. Paul-Elie Dubois was a French ethnographic painter, a native of the Doubs region, associated with the School of Algiers, and winner of First Prize at the 1944 Salon in Paris. In 1938, he persuaded his wife, Henriette Dubois-Damart, to accompany him to the Hoggar Mountains for a second expedition: “For ten years, I had longed to see it again… and I rediscovered its enchantment. The grandeur of the jagged mountains moved me once again. The unchanging pastoral life of the camps...” (Paul-Elie Dubois in a note to his father). Note that the figure of the young Tuareg woman sitting cross-legged in the background on the left, holding her child, appears in one of the artist’s watercolors, dated 1938 (Elisabeth Cazenave, Paul-Elie Dubois, Peintre du Hoggar, Editions du Layeur, 2006, ill. p. 100). This lot requires a deposit. Please contact us to place a bid.