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90 - BAYA (Fatma Haddad Mahieddine (Algeria, Bordj el Kiffan 1931…
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BAYA (Fatma Haddad Mahieddine (Algeria, Bordj el Kiffan 1931 - Blida 1998) Woman with fish and birds, 1971 Gouache on paper 100 x 50 cm Signed and dated lower middle. *** Gouache on paper, signed and dated 1971 (39⅜ × 19¾ in.). This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Comité Baya. Provenance: French private collection, acquired from BAYA's studio in Algiers in 1971. Fatma Haddad, known as Baya, was born in Bordj el-Kiffan in 1931. From the 1940s onwards, she developed an instantly recognisable world of adorned women, birds, luxuriant vegetation and musical instruments, in which the black line structures flat areas of pure colour in frontal compositions of sovereign coherence. Revealed in Paris in 1947 by the Maeght gallery, with a preface by André Breton, she was only sixteen at the time and had no academic training. After a long hiatus, she took up her brush again in the 1960s and produced an abundant body of work until her death in Blida in 1998. Baya's historical importance has been constantly reassessed in recent years. Her work has been the subject of major exhibitions at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (Baya, Femmes en leur jardin, 2022-2023) and at the Vieille Charité, Marseille, in 2023. Her work is currently included in the exhibition Chez Matisse at the Caixa Forum in Spain, and features in Par-delà les Mille et Une Nuits. Histoires des orientalismes at the Louvre-Lens. Her participation in the Venice Biennale 2026, which will be followed by a solo exhibition at London's Tate Modern in 2027, confirms her essential place in the international re-reading of modernity and the great female figures of the 20th century.
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About the sale Arab, African & Indian Modernities
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Auction time 06/18/2026 at 2:30 PM
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