With his bright and moving paintings populated by charmers, dancers, merchants, orators, lovers and muezzins in the Algerian oases, the French painter Étienne Dinet (1861-1929) succeeded in portraying both colonial France and “Independent Algeria”. to seduce and fascinate. Today he is considered a master of Algerian painting and the Institute of the Arab World (IMA) in Paris is dedicating to him the first exhibition in a French institution in a century: “Étienne Dinet, Algerian Passions”.
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