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Place of Birth: Algiers, Algiers Province, Algeria
About Baya (artist)
- Baya Mahieddine (Arabic: ???? ??? ??????) or Fatima Haddad (Arabic: ????? ?????, born in Bordj El Kiffan on December 12, 1931; died November 9, 1998) was an Algerian artist.
- While she did not self-identify as belonging to a particular art genre, critics have classified her paintings as being surrealist, primitive, naïve, and modern.
- Her works are mainly paintings, though she did pottery as well, all completely self-taught.At the age of sixteen Baya had her first exhibition, in Paris, where she gained notice from renowned artists such as Picasso and André Breton.
- Her work was presented in various exhibitions in France and Algeria, and has appeared on Algerian postage stamps.
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