Villa Abd-el-Tif

It was, until 1962, home to the laureates of the Abd-el-Tif prize who were offered bursaries to continue their studies for two years in Algeria.

It now houses the headquarters of the Agence algérienne pour le rayonnement culturel [fr] (AARC).

[4] The villa was not a venue for the teaching of local artists,[3] this was provided already in the École supérieure des beaux-arts d'Alger [fr] established 1843.

The same model of a bursary was later imitated again with the Prix d'Indochine for painters 1920–1939, although no equivalent villa was established in Asia, artists relied on accommodation connected with the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi.

Finally the model was applied a fourth time for a bursary for painters and composers in residence at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, 1929–present.