Paul Élie Dubois
Illustration — Dubois, painting at Assekrem Paul Élie Dubois (pɔl eli dybwa; 20 October 1886, in Colombier-Châtelot – 14 February 1949, in Montbéliard) was a French Orientalist painter; identified with the "École d'Alger".
Also recorded as Paul-Elie Dubois · Paul Elie Dubois
Paul Élie Dubois

Paul Élie Dubois (1886-1949) · ArtNet · Public domain
- Born
- 1886 · Doubs.
- Died
- 1949 · Doubs.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter · artist
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Netherlands, Volendam and Paris. Work by Paul Élie Dubois is recorded in the collections of National Museum of World Cultures and Musée d'art moderne de Paris. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.
His father, Élie Dubois, was a dentist in Montbéliard and belonged to a religious community known as the Plymouth Brethren. He studied at the Académie Julian, followed by Jean-Paul Laurens and Fernand Cormon at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and had his first exhibition at the Salon in 1910. He styled himself as an ethnographic painter and took part in many missions to North Africa; notably to the area around the Hoggar Mountains. He presented the works he created there at the Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931, the Brussels International Exposition (1935), the Exposition Universelle (1937) and the 1939 New York World's Fair. 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 Abd-el-Tif Prize (1920) and the Grand prix Arts artistique de l'Algérie (1927), His works may be seen at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers, the Bardo National Museum (Tunis), the Musée des Années Trente de Boulogne-Billancourt, and several others throughout France. In 2019, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of his death, the city of Luxeuil-les-Bains 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, who has also created paintings at Hoggar.
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Paul Élie Dubois appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as an artist and painter (29 October 1886 – 14 February 1949). Paul Élie Dubois was born on 29 October 1886 in Colombier-Châtelot (Doubs) and died on 14 February 1949 in Montbéliard (Doubs).
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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. It is also recorded that the psychic treatment of nervous disorders: (the psychoneuroses and their moral treatment) / by Paul Dubois. Translated and edited by Smith Ely Jelliffe. And William A.

View of the Admiralty at the Port of Algiers
Paul Élie Dubois (1886-1949) · ArtNet

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Paul Élie Dubois (1886-1949) · ArtNet
Selected paintings
• Illustration — The Meharists • Illustration — alt=Venice Canal at Dusk Venice Canal at Dusk • Illustration — Shilha Dancers • Illustration — Flute Player • Illustration — Encampment at Hoggar
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- 1.Histoire des assemblées de frères en France. Filéo, Le site d'information des Assemblées chrétiennes dites de Frères d'Europe francophone. 2003.
- 2.René Édouard-Joseph, Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains, tome 1, A-E, Art & Édition, 1930,
- 3.Exposition. Orientalisme, regards croisés entre Paul-Élie Dubois et Hocine Ziani. Luxeuil-Vosges-Sud.fr.
- 4.Orientalisme, regards croisés entre Paul-Élie Dubois et Hocine Ziani. L’Est Républicain. 30.04.2019.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- René Édouard-Joseph, Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains, tome 1, A-E, Art & Édition, 1930, (avec portrait en et signatures en .
- Chantal Duverget, Paul Élie Dubois, peintre du Hoggar, mémoire de DEA, Université des Lettres et sciences humaines de Franche-Comté, Besançon, .
- Peindre le Doubs: d'Isenbart à Lombard. les Éditions du Sékoya. 2019. 978-2-84751-178-9.
- Élizabeth Cazenave, La villa Abd el Tif, un demi-siècle de vie artistique en Algérie 1907-1962, Paris : éditions ABD EL tIF, 1998.
- Paul Élie Dubois, peintre du Hoggar. éditions du Layeur. 2006. 2-915118-62-0.
- Élizabeth Cazenave, Les artistes de l'Algérie. Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs 1830-1962, Bernard Giovanangeli éditeurs ; Association Abd El Tif, 2001, .
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