Abd-el-Tif prize
The Prix Abd-el-Tif was a French art prize that was awarded annually from 1907 to 1961. It was modelled on the Prix de Rome, a scholarship that enabled French artists to stay in Rome.
The award was devised in 1907 by Léonce Bénédite, curator of the Museum of Luxembourg and Charles Jonnart, governor-general of French Algeria. The prize comprised a bursary and a year's free stay at the Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algiers, a state-owned institution for the study of Islamic art. Each year's prize winners were chosen by the Society of French Orientalist Painters.
Prize winners
- 1907 : Léon Cauvy, painter, and Paul Jouve, animal painter and sculptor
- 1908 : Jacques Simon, painter. Pierre Poisson, sculptor
- 1909 : Léon Carré, painter, and Jules Migonney
- 1910 : Charles Dufresne, painter, and Henri Villain, painter
- 1911 : Adolphe Beaufrere, painter and engraver
- 1912 : Charles Bigonet, sculptor and Gustave Hierholtz, sculptor
- 1913 : Marius de Buzon, painter, André Chapuy, painter and engraver
- 1914 : Charles-René Darrieux, painter, Albert Pommier, sculptor
- 1920 : Paul Élie Dubois, painter, and Jean Launois, painter
- 1921 : Maurice Bouviolle, painter and 1921 : Jean Bouchaud, painter
- 1922 : Pierre Deval, painter, and Ludovic Pineau, sculptor
- 1923 : Jacques Denier, painter, and Jean Désiré Bascoules, painter
- 1924 : Étienne Bouchaud, painter, and André Rigal, painter and sculptor
- 1925 : Louis Berthomme Saint André, painter, and Eugène Corneau, painter and engraver
- 1926 : Louis Riou, painter
- 1927 : Louis Dideron, sculptor, and André Thomas Rouault, painter and decorator
- 1928 : René Levrel, painter, and Luc Rousseau, painter
- 1929 : Pierre-Eugène Clairin, painter, and Georges Halbout du Tanney, sculptor
- 1930 : Henri Clamens, painter, and André Hébuterne, painter
- 1931 : Pierre Farrey, painter, and Jacques Wolf, painter
- 1932 : Marcel Damboise, sculptor and Richard Maguet, painter
- 1933 : André Hambourg, painter, and Émile Bouneau, painter
- 1934 : Francois Caujan, sculptor, Roger Nivelt, painter
- 1935 : Emile Sabouraud, painter, and Jean Hustel, painter
- 1936 : René Gilles, painter, and Jean Meunier, architect
- 1937 : Camille Leroy, painter, and Antoine Ferrari,
- 1938 : Jean Beaunier, painter, and Edgard Pillet, painter and sculptor
- 1939 : Pierre Lepage, painter, and Jean-André Cante, painter
- 1942 : André Bourdil,, painter, and Jean-Eugene Bersier, painter and engraver
- 1945 : Georges Le Poitevin, painter, and Francois Fauck, painter
- 1946 : Maurice Boitel, painter, and André Beauce, painter
- 1947 : Jean Marie Chabot, painter, and Paul Ragueneau, painter
- 1948 : Jean Pierre Cornet, painter and engraver, and Pierre Quiniou, painter and engraver
- 1949 : Jacques Houplain, engraver, and Jean Carton, sculptor
- 1950 : Pierre Brandel, painter,, and Gabriel Bougrain
- 1951 : Pierre Pruvost, painter, and Jean Menoucoutin, sculptor died at the Villa Abd-el-Tif in 1953
- 1952 : Pierre Parsus, painter, and Jean Vimenet
- 1953 : Robert Martin, painter
- 1954 : Jack Chambrin, painter, and François Cacheux, sculptor
- 1955 : Jean Gachet, painter
- 1956 : Jean-Pierre Blanche, painter, Gisèle.Georges-Mianes dite G.Georges - Mianes first woman laureate, painter, Jean-Marie Albagnac, engraver and photographer
- 1957 : Hubert le Mab, painter
- 1958 : Marc Gruais, painter, and Gérard Roland, painter
- 1959 : Jean Bellenger,, painter
- 1960 : Pierre Clément, painter, Pierre Telliez, and Gauthier known as Gartier Pierre, painter
- 1961 : Victor Candale - did not stay in Algeria
- 1961 : Françoise Naudet, sculptor - did not stay in Algeria