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Hardcover Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris Book

ISBN: 0226835081

ISBN13: 9780226835082

Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris

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 known as 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 solo show in Paris. She wasn't yet sixteen years old...

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