"His painting utilizes traditional Tunisian imagery, both figurative and decorative, revalorizing the Arab-Muslim heritage in order to inject a modernist approach, brightly enhancing Tunisian artistic heritage"

Aly Bellegha was born in 1924 into a paternal lineage of Tunisian artists. He went on to study law, but ineluctably was drawn back to artistic pursuits. He left for Paris after a visit to the Institute of Higher Studies in Tunis, pursuing drawing, engraving and ceramics at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and frequenting was doing the engraving workshops of Professor René Jaudon.

Bellegha moved on to study at the Claude Bernard High School in Paris and at the Highe...