5/26/2023 0 Comments Baya magazine pdf![]() ![]() Baya also used the title “Le grand zoiseau” for one of her paintings, pictured at right. The precious pages showcase eight rare lithographies by Baya, and, rarer still, a short story by her called “Le Grand Zoiseau,” which I translate here as “The Great Great Big Bird.” The wording is difficult to convey in English for though it means “the big bird” it is written phonetically in the way children pronounce “the bird” in French, mistaking the singular article with the plural. ![]() To publicize and celebrate the event, a leaflet in eight sheets was produced, and a few copies remain in circulation. ![]() But Baya in fact wrote at least one short tale, published in the gallery leaflet of her first exhibition in November 1947.īaya’s first exhibition was held when she was very young, sixteen years of age, at the Galerie Maeght in Paris, a gallery that still exists today. Painter and sculptor Baya Mehieddine (1931-1998), born Fatima Haddad on Decemin Bordj el Kiffan, is best remembered as a surrealist painter and self-taught artist who marked her time (and ours) with her bold-hued depictions of women and shape-shifting animals. Acclaimed painter and sculptor Baya Mehieddine also, Nadia Ghanem finds, wrote short stories:
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