Edgard Naccache was born on December 15, 1917 in Tunis and died on March 27, 2006 in Paris. Self-taught, he began painting in 1934 while working as a proofreader for a Tunisian newspaper, and became a journalist in 1943. He exhibited for the first time in Tunis in 1938.
During the occupation of Tunisia by the Axis forces, he was sent to a labor camp in 1942. In 1948, he went to Paris and participated in the Salon de la Jeune Peinture, invited by Father Maurice Morel, a specialist in Picasso and Rouault, and was then considered a representative of the avant-garde of Tunisian painting. In 1949, he contributed to the creation of the artistic movement of the School of Tunis and won the Young Painting Prize of Tunisia in 1950.
Having settled permanently in France in 1962, Edgard Naccache evolved within the narrative figuration movement between 1965 and 1976, developing a committed and narrative figurative style. He died in Paris on March 27, 2006, and was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery. His work demonstrates the richness of Tunisian painting and its transition to contemporary European art.
