La Société Coloniale des Artistes Français (founded 1908) renamed Société des Beaux-Arts de la France d'Outre-mer in 1946, and closed in 1970, was a French artistic society, and rival to the

Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français The Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français (; " Orientalist French Painters Society") was an art society founded in 1893 to promote not only Orientalism but also the travel of French artists in the Far East. Formation and early history F ...

. The society received the patronage of the French Ministry of Education.''La Société coloniale des artistes français puis Société des beaux-arts de la France d'outre-mer: répertoire des exposants et liste de leurs oeuvres, 1908-1970'' Pierre Sanchez, Stéphane Richemond L'échelle de Jacob, 2010-3-1 The impetus for the society commenced with the Colonial Exhibition of Marseilles in 1906, and the exhibition "L'Algérie, la Tunisie et les Indes" of 1907 at the

Bernheim-Jeune Bernheim-Jeune gallery is one of the oldest art galleries in Paris. Opened on Rue Laffitte in 1863 by Alexandre Bernheim (1839-1915), friend of Delacroix, Corot and Courbet, it changed location a few times before settling on Avenue Matignon. Th ...

, and at the initiative of

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a new society was established. The heyday of the society was 1930 to 1935 when its artists competed for bursaries such as the Prix de Guadeloupe and

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 1 ...

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