Beautiful painting, oil on panel from the 1950s, signed on the right. The panel seems to have been cut on the left. Very beautiful painting, ready to be framed. Born to non-French-speaking parents and foreigners to Western culture, he grew up in the vibrant Jewish quarter of Monastir. "How could 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 landscape painter, he received a scholarship for a stay in Paris to further 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, "it is no surprise that Venice captivated him, nor Paris with its quays and bridges [...] But it is the light of Tunis above all that stirred this modern impressionist." His deeply Mediterranean soul gives life and light to his work: Pierre Boucherle remarked about him in 1944: "Whether he paints the southern light playing on the colorful walls of poorly seated houses or on the waters of the harbor, whether he paints a woman's body in the cold dimness of a studio, camels in a sun-scorched atmosphere, or prostitutes crushed by a heavy fate, life on his canvas circulates, tender, ardent, or miserable, always ennobled by the single magic of line and tone." His paintings travel from salons to exhibitions in major cities of the Mediterranean basin. In 1948, Jean Bouret reflected on his trajectory: "Lellouche is the first painter of the regency in the tradition of Marquet. He renews the range of vibrant colors that make Tunis a marvelous Mediterranean port of light." He experienced both satisfaction and setbacks throughout his life but left behind a poignant and highly sensitive body of work. Upon his death, George Besson praised "his beautiful and sensitive drawing and his very precise and refined sense of values." Since 1990, paintings by Jules Lellouche have been regularly presented by the Gérard Rambaud Gallery in Paris. Type: Oil Style: 1940-1960 Genre: Surrealism Characteristics: Signed, On panel Theme: Character