Jellal Ben Abdallah - Artist Info

About Jellal Ben Abdallah

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    Information taken from Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism is as follows:

    Jellal Ben Abdallah is a Tunisian artist and illustrator based in Sidi Bou Saïd. He studied at the Lycée Carnot in Tunis. His early drawings appeared in the first Tunisian feminist periodical Leïla in the 1930s. Ben Abdallah participated in the Salon Tunisien in 1942 and 1945, and established an atelier in Montparnasse in Paris in 1952. During the late nationalist and early postcolonial periods, he was associated with the École de Tunis**, an elite group of artists credited with forging a Tunisian artistic modernism.

    Ben Abdallah’s corpus of work spans miniature painting, acrylic on wood and paper, gouache, and monument design. The majority of his finel...

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