Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris by Alice Kaplan

Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris

Alice Kaplan

176 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction art biography
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The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth.  On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a servant and field worker named Baya escaped the drudgery of her labor by col...

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