La peinture en Tunisie des origines à nos jou... Lot n° 15

Catalog of the exhibition "La peinture en Tunisie des origines à nos jours", Centre d'Art Vivant de la Ville de Tunis, Musée d'art moderne, Le Belvedere, s.d., ca. 1992 In-folio, paperback, 108p, 113 black illustrations. Preface in Arabic and French by Ali Louati. A 90-year retrospective of pictorial art in Tunisia, from its emergence in the late 19th century to the early 1990s. Included are the first easel painters (Khayachi), the "Group of 4" artists of the Tunis School (Boucherle, Lellouche, Corpora, Moses Levy), the Orientalists (Cros, Dabadie, Roubtzoff...), the Tunis School (Yahia, Jella Ben Abdallah, Gorgi, Bellagha, Safia Farhat...), the "Group of 6" (Nejib Belkhodja, Rocchegiani, Gmach, Larnaout...), naive art (Meherzia Ghaddab, Baghdadi Chniter...), brutalist art (Hamadi Ben Saad) and modern and contemporary artists such as Megdiche, Nja Mahdaoui, Rachid Koraichi... 104 artists represented, 104 works reproduced. Biographies for each artist in Arabic. Public and private collections. This catalog foreshadows the book published a few years later by Ali Louati, "L'aventure de l'art moderne en Tunisie". A 90-year retrospective of pictorial art in Tunisia, from its emergence at the end of the 19th century to the early 1990s. It includes the first easel painters (Khayachi), the artists of the "Group of 4" of the Tunis School (Boucherle, Lellouche, Corpora, Moses Levy), the Orientalists (Cros, Dabadie, Roubtzoff...), the Tunis School (Yahia, Jella Ben Abdallah, Gorgi, Bellagha, Safia Farhat.. ), the "Group of 6" (Nejib Belkhodja, Rocchegiani, Gmach, Larnaout...), naive art (Meherzia Ghaddab, Baghdadi Chniter...), brutalist art (Hamadi Ben Saad) and modern and contemporary artists such as Megdiche, Nja Mahdaoui, Rachid Koraichi... 104 artists represented, 104 works reproduced. Biographies for each artist in Arabic. Public and private collections. This catalog foreshadows the book that Ali Louati would publish a few years later, "L'aventure de l'art moderne en Tunisie".