Beautiful painting, oil to be identified dating from the 1950s. Born to non-French speaking parents and foreign to Western culture, he grew up in the lively Jewish quarter of Monastir. "How can one not be a painter when born in such a city?" he liked to say about his hometown. After studying at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Tunis, where his attraction to nature made him a promising portraitist and landscapist, he won a scholarship for a stay in Paris to complete his artistic training. He also fell in love with Venice to the point that Fernand Rouillon called him "Lellouche the Venetian born in Monastir." For Juliette Darle, "one cannot be surprised that Venice captivated him, nor Paris with its quays and bridges [...] But it is the light of Tunis above all that fascinated this modern impressionist." His deeply Mediterranean soul gives life and light to his work: Pierre Boucherle said of him in 1944: "Whether he paints the southern light playing on the colorful walls of ill-set houses or on the waters of the port, whether he paints a woman's body in the cold gloom of a workshop, camels in a sun-bleached atmosphere, or prostitutes crushed by a heavy fate, life on his canvas circulates, tender, fervent, or miserable, always ennobled by the sole magic of line and tone." His paintings travel from salons to exhibitions in the major cities of the Mediterranean basin. In 1948, Jean Bouret viewed his trajectory this way: "Lellouche is the first painter of the regency in the tradition of Marquet. He renews the range of brilliant colors that make Tunis an admirable Mediterranean port of light." He faced both joys and setbacks throughout his life but leaves behind a poignant and highly sensitive body of work. Upon his death, George Besson praised "his beautiful and sensitive drawing and his very accurate and refined sense of values." From 1990 onwards, paintings by Jules Lellouche have been regularly presented by the Galerie Gérard Rambaud in Paris. Type: Oil Style: 1940-1960 Genre: Cubism Characteristics: On panel, Signed Theme: Character