Originally from Belgium, Edouard Verschaffelt spent most of his life in Algeria, in Bou Saâda, where he passed away in 1955. Trained at the Fine Arts Academies of Ghent and Antwerp, he remained connected to his Flemish heritage and the Impressionist developments of his time. However, he is best known today for his Orientalist works. Five years after his first visit in 1919, he settled permanently in the oasis of Bou Saâda and married a young woman from the Ouled Sidi Brahim tribe. It was in this Saharan region that he found the subjects of his works, capturing the Algerian reality he encountered daily.

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