Abd-el-Tif prize

Colonnades of the villa Abd-el-Tif

The prix Abd-el-Tif, or Abd-el-Tif prize 1907-1961, was a prize and bursary award for painter artists modelled on the Prix de Rome, and later Prix d'Indochine (1920-1938).

Decreed on contest, it was created in 1907 under the impulse of Léonce Bénédite, curator of the Museum of Luxembourg and Claude Jonnart, general governor of Algeria, in order to make it possible to young talented artists to remain one year or two, sometimes more, with the expenses of the State in the Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algiers. The villa Abd-el-Tif was a villa established on the basis of the Villa Médicis in Rome, and later the Casa de Velázquez at Madrid, to provide a location for French artists to study Islamic art.

The Company of the French Orientalist Painters was in charge of the attribution of this award. This villa, contrary to the Villa Medici of Rome, had no director: it was directly managed by the residing artists . This institution contributed to the artistic radiation of Algeria.

Prize winners

• 1907 : Léon Cauvy (1874-1933), painter, and Paul Jouve (1880-1973), animal painter and sculptor
• 1908 : Jacques Simon (1875-1965), painter. Pierre Poisson (1876-1953), sculptor
• 1909 : Léon Carré (1878-1942), painter, and Jules Migonney (1876-1927)
• 1910 : Charles Dufresne (1875-1938), painter, and Henri Villain (1878-1938), painter
• 1911 : Adolphe Beaufrere (1876-1960), painter and engraver
• 1912 : Charles Bigonet (1877-1931), sculptor and Gustave Hierholtz (1877-1948), sculptor
• 1913 : Marius de Buzon (1879-1958), painter, André Chapuy (1882-1941), painter and engraver
• 1914 : Charles-René Darrieux, painter, Albert Pommier (1880-1944), sculptor
• 1920 : fr:Paul Élie Dubois (1886-1949), painter, and Jean Launois (1898-1942), painter
• 1921 : Maurice Bouviolle (1893-1971), painter and 1921 : Jean Bouchaud (1891-1977), painter
• 1922 : Pierre Deval (1897-1993), painter, and Ludovic Pineau (1886-1935), sculptor
• 1923 : Jacques Denier (1894-1983), painter, and Jean Désiré Bascoules (1886-1976), painter
• 1924 : Étienne Bouchaud (1898-1989), painter, and André Rigal (1888- ? ), painter and sculptor
• 1925 : Louis Berthomme Saint André (1905-1977), painter, and Eugène Corneau (1894-1975), painter and engraver
• 1926 : Louis Riou (1893-1958), painter
• 1927 : Louis Dideron (1901-1980), sculptor, and André Thomas Rouault (1899-1949), painter and decorator
• 1928 : René Levrel (1900-1981), painter, and Luc Rousseau (1899-1958), painter
• 1929 : Pierre-Eugène Clairin (1897-1980), painter, and Georges Halbout du Tanney (1895-1986), sculptor
• 1930 : Henri Clamens (1905-1937)painter, and André Hébuterne (1894-1979), painter
• 1931 : Pierre Farrey (1896-?), painter, and Jacques Wolf (1896-1956)painter
• 1932 : Marcel Damboise (1932-1992), sculptor and Richard Maguet (1896-1940)painter
• 1933 : André Hambourg (1909-1999)], painter, and Émile Bouneau (1902-1970), painter
• 1934 : Francois Caujan (1902-1945), sculptor, Roger Nivelt (1899-1962), painter
• 1935 : Emile Sabouraud (1900-1996), painter, and Jean Hustel (1906-1991), painter
• 1936 : René Gilles (1910-), painter, and Jean Meunier (né en 1903), architecte
• 1937 : Camille Leroy (1905-1995), painter, and Antoine Ferrari (1910-1995),
• 1938 : Jean Beaunier (1908-1947), painter, and Edgard Pillet (1912-1997), painter and sculptor
• 1939 : Pierre Lepage (1906-1983), painter, and Jean-André Cante (1912-1977), painter
• 1942 : André Bourdil,(1911-1982), painter, and Jean-Eugene Bersier (1895-1980), painter and engraver
• 1945 : Georges Le Poitevin (1912-1992), painter, and Francois Fauck (1911-1979), painter
• 1946 : Maurice Boitel (1919-2007), painter, and André Beauce (1911-1974), painter
• 1947 : Jean Marie Chabot (1914-), painter, and Paul Ragueneau(1913-1986), painter
• 1948 : Jean Pierre Cornet (? ), painter and engraver, and Pierre Quiniou (1920-), painter and engraver
• 1949 : Jacques Houplain (né en 1920), engraver, and Jean Carton (1912-1988), sculptor
• 1950 : Pierre Brandel, painter,(1912-2003), and Gabriel Bougrain born Cairo
• 1951 : Pierre Pruvost (1921-2008), painter, and Jean Menoucoutin, sculptor died at the Villa Abd-el-Tif in 1953
• 1952 : Pierre Parsus (né en 1921), painter, and Jean Vimenet (1914-1999)
• 1953 : Robert Martin (1925-2001), painter
• 1954 : Jack Chambrin (1919-1983), painter, and François Cacheux (1923-), sculptor
• 1955 : Jean Gachet, painter (1920-2003)
• 1956 : Jean-Pierre Blanche (1927-), painter, Gisèle.Georges-Mianes dite G.Georges - Mianes first woman laureate (1928-), painter, Jean-Marie Albagnac (1931), engraver and photographer
• 1957 : Hubert le Mab (1924), painter
• 1958 : Marc Gruais (1932), painter, and Gérard Roland (1932), painter
• 1959 : Jean Bellenger, (1925), painter
• 1960 : Pierre Clément(1923), painter, Pierre Telliez (né en 1932), and Gauthier known as Gartier Pierre (1930), painter
• 1961 : Victor Candale, without residence in Algeria.
• 1961 : Françoise Naudet, sculptor, last prix Abd-el-Tif, no residence in Algérie.

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