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Baya, 1931-1998

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Personal name headingBaya, 1931-1998
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Variant(s)Bāyah, 1931-1998
Haddad, Fatima, 1931-1998
Haddad, Fatma, 1931-1998
Mahieddine, Baya, 1931-1998
Associated countryAlgeria
Associated placeFrance
Birth date1931-12-12
Death date1998-11-09
Place of birthBordj el Kiffan (Algeria)
Place of deathBlida (Algeria)
Found inHer Baya, 1988: t.p. (Baya) p. 1, etc. (Baya, femme d'Alger; b. 12-12-31 at Bordj el-Kiffan [Algeria]; artist; Bāyah)
Bénézit, 2006 (Baya; pseud. of Fatima Haddad; d. Nov. 9, 1998 in El-Boulaida)
André Breton, le surréalisme, et l'Algérie: Art: Baya revisitée, 2016: page 8 (Baya, real name Fatma Haddad, born 12 December 1931 near (Fort-de-l'eau (now Bordj-el-Kifan); orphaned, lived with grandmother, then in 1942 with Marguerite and Frank Mac Ewen in Algiers, who encouraged her painting talents; in 1947 had a successful exhibition at galerie Maeght in Paris; had a stay in Vallauris in 1948, did pottery at Madoura, had a studio next to Picasso's; in 1953 she married El Hadj Mahfoud Mahieddine (born 1903), a well-known musician in Blida; she stopped painting and devoted herself to her family; began painting again in 1963; with the death of her husband in 1979 she focused completely on painting; became ill in 1980; died 1998 9 November in the central hospital of Blida)
Wikipedia, August 31, 2018 (Baya (artist); Baya Mahieddine or Fatima Haddad; Algerian artist of Kabyle-Berber origin)