Frédéric Marius De Buzon (1879-1958) View D Algiers 1925

View of Algiers by Fféderic Marius de Buzon (1879-1958) painted in 1925, signed and dated oil on canvas size 61 cm by 50 cm, the frame is new and the frame has been changed because damaged Frédéric Marius de Buzon, born on September 18, 1879 in La Roque, commune of Bayon-sur-Gironde and died November 26, 1958, in Algiers, is a French painter from the school of Algiers He was at the school of fine arts in Bordeaux, student of Paul Quinsac, then at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris with Fernand Cormon and Albert Maignan, close to Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Denis, contemporary of Fauvism, he is in the ethnographic continuity of Paul Gauguin. He received the Lefèvre Glaize Maguelonne prize in 1910, and a medal at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1911. He also exhibited at the Tuileries Salon and the Salon d'Automne, and at the Galerie Charlet in Algiers. He obtained the Abd-el-Tif prize in 1913. He is considered to be one of the most influential members of the School of Algiers. Mobilized in 1914 in Macedonia, then in 1915 in Kabylia where he spent a period of fifteen months in the region of Michelet (today Ain el Hammam) and Fort-National (Larbaâ Nath Irathen), which he traveled on foot or by back of a mule: "I discovered beings," he then explained, "the vegetation, the atmosphere and the rest, in order to succeed, by the magic of emotion, in transferring color into living matter" 1 . He was a gold medal out of competition at the Salon of French artists in 1922 (for Le Marché kabyle and Le Retour du marché, of which he painted several replicas between 1922 and 1926), and vermeil medal from the Society of French Orientalist Painters in 1922. He won the Rosa Bonheur Prize in 1923 for his Portrait of a Child and the Algerian Artistic Grand Prize the same year. The salon of the Society of Algerian and Orientalist artists awarded him the travel grant of the PLM railway company in 1926 and the travel grant of the Algerian state railways in 1930. He taught at the Algerian Academy. Arts founded by Rafel Tona and André Figueras in the 1930s. He also exhibited at the Decorative Arts exhibition in 1925 The Port of Bordeaux and overseas relations (panel of 8.10 × 3.14 m) commissioned by the French State, at the Palais Carnot, in Algiers in December 1925, at the Salon of the Society of Orientalist Painters in 1922-1923-1933-1934-1935, in Roubaix in October 1928, at the Galerie Dujardin, in Prague in 1930 Terraces in Ghardaia and Festival of Aid Seghir, at the Colonial Exhibition of 1931 Moorish baths in Ghardaia, at the seconda mostra internazionale of colonial arte in Naples, from October 1934 to January 1935 The Kabyle Butcher, and at the Universal Exhibition of 1937, in Paris. he was appointed president of the Patronage Committee of Villa Abd-el-Tif. Max-Pol Fouchet says of him in Algeria of 1939: “The praise of M. de Buzon seems unnecessary to me. We know the serious and powerful art of this painter, but he also knows how to release on his paintings a Corotian tenderness in front of such a French landscape. It only moves him more. "While according to Victor Barrucand," he highlighted the essential lines of the landscapes, sculpting the Kabyles valleys with large sides. »He is made a knight of the Legion of Honor. He was the subject of a retrospective at the Antinéa gallery, in Paris in 1983, also exhibited at the Foresto gallery in Geneva in 1984. He is considered, and cited, as the "cantor of Kabylia" and one of the founders of the School of Algiers (following Maxime Noiré, and with Léon Carré, Léon Cauvy, Paul Jouve). He also painted landscapes and types of the region of Bougie, Mzab (where he was one of the first painters to enter, after Étienne Dinet, with Maurice Bouviolle), Touggourt where he stayed regularly after 1945 (L'Heure blonde, 81 × 120, 1950), Témacine (1953), as well as in Sidi Bou Saïd, or in Spain and Morocco, in Casablanca, Rabat or Fez. His works are highly sought after by collectors as representing scenes from Kabyle life, landscapes, pastoral scenes; "He substitutes for the notion of ethnic identification, that infinitely more poetic of allegory (Élisabeth Cazenave)", while in 1930 Pierre Angel wrote of him: "Marius de Buzon pursued on these African shores the ancient dreams of pagan mystic ”. [ref. necessary] Marius de Buzon died on November 26, 1958 in Algiers. His son Jean and his grandson Jean-Frédéric de Buzon will be assassinated in 1962 while they were trying to move and save their father's workshop (wikipedia)