Paul Élie Dubois (; 20 October 1886, in Colombier-Châtelot – 14 February 1949, in

Montbéliard Montbéliard (; traditional ) is a town in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France, about from the border with Switzerland. It is one of the two subprefectures of the department. History Montbéliard is ...

) was a French Orientalist painter; identified with the "".

Biography

His father, Élie Dubois, was a dentist in

and belonged to a religious community known as the

Plymouth Brethren The Plymouth Brethren or Assemblies of Brethren are a low church and Nonconformist (Protestantism), Nonconformist Christian movement whose history can be traced back to Dublin, Ireland, in the mid to late 1820s, where it originated from Anglica ...

. He studied at the

Académie Julian The () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907). The school was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number and qual ...

, followed by

Jean-Paul Laurens Jean-Paul Laurens (; 28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a romanticism French painter and sculptor, and he is one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Biography Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon ...

and

Fernand Cormon Fernand Cormon (; 24 December 1845 – 20 March 1924) was a French painter born in Paris. He became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-François Portaels, and one of the leading historical painters of modern France. Biog ...

at the

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, and had his first exhibition at the

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in 1910. He styled himself as an

ethnographic Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining ...

painter and took part in many missions to North Africa; notably to the area around the

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. He presented the works he created there at the

Paris Colonial Exposition The Paris Colonial Exhibition (or "''Exposition coloniale internationale''", International Colonial Exhibition) was a six-month colonial exhibition held in Paris, France, in 1931 that attempted to display the diverse cultures and immense resour ...

of 1931, the

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, the Exposition Universelle (1937) and the

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. In 1933, he married Henriette Damart, a pastellist who had worked in Tunisia, and would work with him throughout North Africa. He was the recipient of numerous awards; including the

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(1920) and the Grand prix Arts artistique de l'Algérie (1927), His works may be seen at the

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, the

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, the

Musée des Années Trente The Musée des Années Trente (Museum of the 1930s) is a municipal museum specializing in the fine arts, decorative arts, and industrial arts of the 1930s. It is located in the Espace Landowski at 28, Avenue André-Morizet, Boulogne-Billancourt, a ...

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, and several others throughout France. In 2019, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of his death, the city of

Luxeuil-les-Bains Luxeuil-les-Bains () is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté west of Mulhouse in eastern France. History Luxeuil (sometimes rendered Luxeu in older texts) was the Roman Luxovium and contained many ...

paid him tribute. To this end, the Musée de la Tour des Échevins presented a dual exhibition, featuring Dubois and the contemporary Algerian artist,

Hocine Ziani Hocine Ziani (born 3 May 1953) is an Algerian painter and artist in plastic arts. Early years Ziani was born on 3 May 1953 in Sidi Daoud to a Kabyle people, Kabyle family living in the countryside of lower Kabylia near Zawiyet Sidi Amar Cherif ...

, who has also created paintings at Hoggar."Orientalisme, regards croisés entre Paul-Élie Dubois et Hocine Ziani", In: ''L’Est Républicain'', 30 April 201
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Selected paintings

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Dancers File:Dubois-Flute.jpg, Flute Player File:Dubois-Encampment.jpg, Encampment at Hoggar

References

External links

More works by Dubois
@ ArtNet
"Paul Élie Dubois: l'Ambassadeur du Hoggar"
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Biography

Selected paintings

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