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Maurice BOUVIOLLE (Beauvais 1893 - Marseille 1971) The vegetable market in Blida Original oil on canvas 46x55 cm Signed and localized lower right Blida M Bouviolle A student at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in 1910, Maurice Bouviolle studied under Gabriel Ferrier and Henri Rousseau. In 1912, he met Maxime Maufra, who encouraged him to go to Algeria, where he did his military service. His orientalist paintings, notably of scenes from the M'zab region, won him recognition at the Salon des artistes algériens in 1921. In 1921, he won the Abd-el-Tif prize, and in 1922, he was awarded the silver medal for his work Marché à Ghardaia at the Salon des artistes français. He was awarded the Grand Prix Artistique de l'Algérie in 1931 and a vermeil medal in 1942. Bouviolle, nicknamed the "cantor of the M'zab", specialized in market scenes and portraits of local life, notably Ouled Naïls musicians and dancers. After the Second World War, he moved to Marseille, where, despite suffering from hemiplegia in 1961, he continued to paint views of the city, remaining faithful to an art imbued with traditional values.