Paul Elie Dubois

Paul Elie Dubois (Montbéliard 1886 - Colombier-Châtelot 1949)

French painter attached to the School of Algiers.

Traveling Painter

Paul-Élie Dubois completed his apprenticeship at the Académie Julian and then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Student of Jean-Paul Laurens and Fernand Cormon2.
He remained attached to drawing throughout his career, despite freeing himself from academic art.

However, he is on the fringes of the 20th century trends, he is enriched by the works of modern artists and is imbued with them. Paul-Élie Dubois prioritizes light and color in his painting.

His growing talent and perseverance allowed him to gain recognition from his peers and critics. From then on he would make a living from his painting.

Paul Élie Dubois exhibited to French artists in 1908 with a portrait of a peasant from Franche-Comté. In 1911, he received an honorable mention for a portrait entitled Jeanne.

In 1912, the State acquired his canvas Harmony in White and he presented again in 1913, The Pink Dress and the Wood Gatherers in Winter and then in 1914, Spring2.

During the First World War, he painted a large composition called Mourning, which earned him a silver medal, the Thirion Prize and a travel grant at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1920. This is how he left that year for a two-year stay at the Villa And-El-Tif in Algiers.
Paul-Elie Dubois would never leave this country, where he would experience the most exciting years of his career. According to his own words, he would have the "revelation of light" in Algeria.

His return was a great success. In 1922 he won a gold medal at the Salon for his painting Arab Women in the Cemetery of El-Kettar and was then placed outside the competition. The Institute also rewarded him in 1923, as did the Higher Council of Fine Arts, which awarded him its national prize for Arab Musicians and Peace in the Light.

In 1926, the salon hosted the white cortère, a carpet market and Marrakech (Morocco). He also exhibited at the Tuileries salon a series of paintings brought back from his trip to Morocco.
He was an ethnographic painter who took part in numerous missions to Hoggar, particularly from 1928, and focused on the life of the Tuaregs, the blue men of the desert.

At the Tuileries exhibition in 1930, he achieved a triumph and presented nearly 400 works that aroused the interest of critics and the enthusiasm of the public. The distinction of "ambassador of Hoggar" was awarded to him.
He was present at the Colonial Exhibition of 1931, at the International Exhibition of Brussels in 1935, at the Universal Exhibitions of Paris in 1937 and in New York in 1939.

His works are preserved, among others, at the Luxembourg Museum, the Petit-Palais, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers, the Zabana National Museum of Oran, the Bardo National Museum, the Museum of the Thirties of Boulogne-Billancourt, the museums of Montbeliard, Besançon, Luxeuil-Les-Bains, Voiron and Narbonne.

Awards:
Thiron Prize (1920). Abd-El-Tif Prize (1920). National Prize for Fine Arts (1923). Grand Prize for Artistic Arts of Algeria (1927). Dumoulin Prize for Algeria, 1935 Salon.

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