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 Charles Dominique Fouqueray (Le Mans, 23 April 1869 – 28 March 1956) was a French painter.Nadine André-Pallois, ''Les Peintres français et indochinois'', 1997, p. 108. La première chose que l'on remarque lorsque l'on étudie les travaux de C ...

obtained le prix Indochine 1914. From 1925 the prize was associated with the

École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine The Vietnam University of Fine Arts (formerly ''Hanoi College of Fine Arts'') is an art school in Hanoi, Vietnam originally established under French colonial rule in 1925. The university has trained many of Vietnam’s leading artists and each year ...

Winners

Subsequent winners included Victor Tardieu (1920),

Paul Jouve Pierre-Paul Jouve (Marlotte, Seine-et-Marne, 16 March 1878 - Paris, 13 May 1973) was a French painter, sculptor and illustrator. He was notable for his paintings and sculptures of Africa's animals. He was first recipient of the Prix Abd-el-Ti ...

(1921), Antoine Ponchin (1922),

Jean Bouchaud Jean Bouchaud (1891 in Saint Herblain near Nantes – 1977 in Nantes) was a French painter. He was fascinated by travel since his childhood seeing ships from Africa call at Nantes. Apart from his travels in Africa and elsewhere, he also rece ...

(1924), Jules Besson (1925), Paul-Émile Legouez (1926),

Raymond Virac Raymond Pierre Virac (Madrid 19 October 1892 - Tananarive, 1946) was a French painter. He studied at the Académie Julian then at the École des Beaux Arts de Paris. He spent many years in Vietnam, where he won the Prix d'Indochine in 1927, returne ...

(1927),

Henri Dabadie Henri Célestin Louis Dabadie (1 December 1867, Pau - 19 October 1949, Saint-Mandé) was a French landscape and Orientalist painter. Biography He was a student of Jules-Élie Delaunay and Henri Michel-Lévy. After completing his studies, he d ...

(1928),

Lucien Lièvre Lucien Lièvre (Paris, 1878-1936) was a French painter.Revue de l'art ancien et moderne: Volume 70 Jules Abel Comte, Jean de Foville, André Dezarrois - 1936 " ... mort en Avignon, à 58 ans; — le peintre Lucien Lièvre, chevalier de la Légion ...

(1929),

Louis Rollet Louis Rollet (6e arrondissement, Paris, 3 May 1895 - Saché, 1988) was a French painter of the school of " peintres voyageurs" of the early 20th Century. He made many journeys in Asia and Africa and was particularly influential on local artists du ...

(1930),

Évariste Jonchère Évariste Jonchère (8 July 1892, in Coulonges-les-Hérolles, Vienne – 1956, in Paris) was a French sculptor. He studied with Antonin Mercié and Jean Boucher at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, then received the Grand Prix de ...

(1932),

Jean Despujols Jean Despujols ( Salles en Gironde 19 March 1886-Shreveport, 1965) was a French, later naturalised American, painter. He was a pupil of Paul Quinsac at the école des Beaux-Arts of Bordeaux. In 1914 he won the Prix de Rome for painting but the out ...

(1936) and

Louis Bate Louis Robert Bate (10 October 1898, in Bordeaux – 1948 in Da Lat) was a French sculptor, as was his wife Juliette Briet-Bate. He was a pupil of Jules Coutan and Paul Landowski and a member of the Société Coloniale des Artistes Français and wo ...

(1938). In certain years, such as 1935 and 1937, no prize was awarded.Les salons des artistes coloniaux: suivi d'un dictionnaire des sculpteurs Stéphane Richemond Éditions de l'Amateur, 2003 These winners were not required to paint scenes from Asia, which they had usually not visited prior to winning the prize. For example,

, 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 The Villa Abd-el-Tif, also known as ''la Villa Medicis algérienne'', is a Moorish villa located in Algiers, Algeria. It is notable for having been set up in 1907 in emulation of the French Academy in Rome, the Villa Medici. It was, until 1962, h ...

, 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.André-Pallois, Nadine. (1997). ''L'Indochine: un lieu d'échange culturel?: les peintres français.'' École française d'Extrême-Orient. pp. 221-226. 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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