Augustin Ferrando 1880-1957 Orientalist, Algeria: "portrait Of A Young Oriental Woman" Charcoal

Augustin Jean Ferrando, born on April 14, 18801 or April 152 in Miliana (Algeria)1,Note 1, and died on April 7, 1957 or April 8 in Oran3, was a French Orientalist painter of the modern school, also known as the Algiers school.
Biography

A student at the Algiers School of Fine Arts in 18981, then at the Académie Druet and Rochegrosse, and a former student of Fernand Cormon (1845-1924) at the Paris School of Fine Arts, he met Derain, Matisse, Léger, Vlaminck and Utrillo in Paris.

Considered the only Fauvist painter in Algeria, Ferrando won several vermeille medals (at exhibitions organized by the Société des Artistes Orientalistes). In 1914, he was drafted into the Zouaves of Algiers, where he served until 1918.

Appointed director of the Oran School of Fine Arts and founder of the Association amicale des Artistes africains, he became curator of the Musée Demaeght in 1935. He worked in Oued Taria, where his second wife was originally from.

Numerous exhibitions in Algiers (Galerie Charlet), Oran (Galerie Pozzalo and Galerie Pasteur), Paris (Palais de New York), Biennale de Menton. Various retrospectives, including Algiers in 1959, Musée Rolin d'Autun in 1977 (notice and catalog by G. Vuillemot, curator), Boulogne-Billancourt in 1990, Versailles and Paris in 1992, and in Albert Marquet et ses amis, July 2008, center culturel de Saint-Raphaël (Var).
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