Société Coloniale des Artistes Français

La Société Coloniale des Artistes Français (founded 1908) renamed Société des Beaux-Arts de la France d'Outre-mer in 1946, and closed in 1970, was a French artistic society, and rival to the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français.{{Cite web |title=CTHS - Société internationale des beaux-arts - PARIS |url=http://cths.fr/an/societe.php?id=2989 |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=cths.fr}} The society received the patronage of the French Ministry of Education.La Société coloniale des artistes français puis Société des beaux-arts de la France d'outre-mer: répertoire des exposants et liste de leurs oeuvres, 1908-1970 Pierre Sanchez, Stéphane Richemond L'échelle de Jacob, 2010-3-1 The impetus for the society commenced with the Colonial Exhibition of Marseilles in 1906, and the exhibition "L'Algérie, la Tunisie et les Indes" of 1907 at the Bernheim-Jeune, and at the initiative of Louis Dumoulin a new society was established. The heyday of the society was 1930 to 1935 when its artists competed for bursaries such as the Prix de Guadeloupe and Prix de l'Indochine.