Bachir Yellès (Arabic: بشير يلس; 12 September 1921 – 16 August 2022) was an Algerian painter.
Life and career
Yellès was born in Tlemcen on 12 September 1921.[1] He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Algiers, then the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris. He served as a director of the École supérieur des Beaux Arts d'Alger of Algiers,[2] between the years 1960 and 1980.[3] In his works, he continued using local themes but also experimented with Cubism, Expressionism, and Fauvism.[1] Yellès turned 100 in September 2021.[4] He died in Algiers on 16 August 2022.[5]
References
^ abBloom and Blair, p. 50. "Bachir Yelles (b. 1921) and Muhammad Bouzid (b. 1929) explored Cubism, Fauvism and Expressionism while maintaining local themes."
^Collectif et al. 84. "Dans les années 1960 à 1980, sous la direction du peintre Bachir Yellès, les grands noms de la peinture algérienne moderne[...]"