Collection: Edgard Naccache

Edgard Naccache, born December 15, 1917 in Tunis and died March 27, 2006 in Paris, is a Tunisian painter.

Self-taught, Edgard Naccache began painting in 1934 while working as a proofreader for a Tunisian newspaper. He became a journalist in 1943 and exhibited for the first time in Tunis in 1938.

During the occupation of Tunisia by Axis troops, he was sent to a labor camp in 1942. In 1948, he went to Paris for the first time and exhibited at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture, invited by Abbé Maurice Morel, a specialist in Pablo Picasso and Georges Rouault. At that time, he was considered a representative of the avant-garde of Tunisian painting. In 1949, he participated in the creation of the artistic movement of the School of Tunis and won the prize for young Tunisian painting in 1950. He settled in France in 1962 and evolved within the narrative figuration movement between 1965 and 1976. Edgard Naccache died on March 27, 2006 and was buried in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris.