Prix de l'Indochine

The Prix de l'Indochine (1914, 1920–1938) was a French colonial art prize established, originally as a one-off prize in 1910, and awarded 1914, by , Gouverneur général of Indochina.Charles Fouqueray obtained le prix Indochine 1914. From 1925 the prize was associated with the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine.

Subsequent winners included Victor Tardieu (1920), Paul Jouve (1921), Antoine Ponchin (1922), Jean Bouchaud (1924), Jules Besson (1925), Paul-Émile Legouez (1926),Raymond Virac (1927), Henri Dabadie (1928), Lucien Lièvre (1929), Louis Rollet (1930), Évariste Jonchère (1932), Jean Despujols (1936), Louis Bate (1938). In certain years, such as 1935 and 1937, no prize was awarded.

These winners were not required to paint scenes from Asia, which they had usually not visited prior to winning the prize. For example, Henri Dabadie, having travelled at his own expenses in Algeria, without having won the coveted Prix Abd-el-Tif for a residence at the Villa Abd-el-Tif, entered a painting of the Bay of Tunis into competition at the Salon de la Société coloniale des Artistes français in 1928, which won him the Prix de l'Indochine, including free passage to Indochina, and a period of employment at EBAI in Hanoi. Many of these artists were not primarily associated with Indochina, having also won the Prix Abd-el-Tif, with a residency in Algiers, in which case classed as "peintres Africanistes," or a bursary at the Villa Velázquez, Madrid.

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