Variations (2015)*
Description
Size: 146 x 114 cm 57.5 x 44.8 in
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed and dated front lower right
Provenance
Private Collection, Lebanon. Acquired by the present owner from Claude Lemand Gallery, Paris.
Location
Beirut, Lebanon
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Description
Mahjoub Ben Bella (1946 –2020) was born in Oran, Algeria. He studied at his hometown’s École des Beaux-Arts before moving to France where he joined the École des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing, the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and the Beaux-Arts de Paris. He ultimately settled in the North of France, where he is known for monumental accomplishments: in 1986, he painted 12 kilometres of roadway on the Paris-Roubaix cycling race and in 2000, he decorated a station of the Lille Metro network with 1800 ceramic tiles.
Like many artists of his generation, Ben Bella combined his Arab heritage including calligraphy into the Post World War II modernist movements. He used to repeatedly apply thick textures of colour, providing his compositions a vibrant dynamism.
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