red-hot-moon:

beforesunset2004:

I always get so fucking mad when I remember that it’s actually a 16-year-old Algerian girl who influenced BOTH Picasso and Matisse. and. No one gives a rat’s ass about her work which was very focused on women and nature. History -or people dare I say- didn’t bother to remember her name because she was a young Algerian woman and no one cares about Maghrebi/Arab women. unlike P*casso & M*tisse who both became legends, almost gods both during their lives and after their deaths, no one knows her.

Her name was Baya Mahieddine.

Here are some of her works!

Women at table – 1947

Reclining woman with blue face, 1947

Woman with a caged bird, 1947

(found here)

Women and orange trees on a white background, 1947

Woman in a green dress, 1940

Woman in a yellow dress with a basket, 1947

(found here)