The Prix de l'Indochine (1914, 1920–1938) was a French colonial art prize established, originally as a one-off prize in 1910, and awarded 1914, by Antony Klobukowski [fr], Gouverneur général of Indochina.
Subsequent winners included Victor Tardieu (1920), Paul Jouve (1921), Antoine Ponchin (1922), Jean Bouchaud (1924), Jules Besson (1925),[2][nb 1] Paul-Émile Legouez (1926),[3] Raymond Virac (1927), Henri Dabadie (1928), Lucien Lièvre (1929), Louis Rollet (1930), Évariste Jonchère (1932), Jean Despujols (1936) and Louis Bate (1938).
[4] These winners were not required to paint scenes from Asia, which they had usually not visited prior to winning the prize.
For example, Henri Dabadie, having travelled at his own expenses in Algeria, without having won the coveted Prix Abd-el-Tif for a residence at the Villa Abd-el-Tif, entered a painting of the Bay of Tunis into competition at the Salon de la Société coloniale des Artistes français in 1928, which won him the Prix de l'Indochine, including free passage to Indochina, and a period of employment at EBAI in Hanoi.
[2][nb 2] Many of these artists were not primarily associated with Indochina, having also won the Prix Abd-el-Tif, with a residency in Algiers, in which case classed as "peintres Africanistes," or a bursary at the Villa Velázquez, Madrid.