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Mahjoub BEN BELLA (Algeria, 1946 - Lille, 2020) Untitled, 2003 Oil and Indian ink on canvas 32.5 x 24 cm Signed and dated Ben Bella (20)03 lower right We would like to thank the artist's family for confirming the authenticity of this work and for having it included in the catalog raisonné under reference NB392. Provenance : Private collection, gift of the artist. A Franco-Algerian painter, Mahjoub Ben Bella studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Oran, then in Tourcoing in 1965. He went on to study at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He then taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Cambrai, and set up his studio in Tourcoing in 1975. His work is characterized by the use of bold lines and colors, with hints of Arabic calligraphy. But there's much more to his work than color. Always painting to music, Mahjoub Ben Bella, whose work is based on gesture and the proliferation of rhythm-generating signs, plays with minimal and abstract graphic contrasts, while reinterpreting his cultural heritage through the use of pseudo-calligraphy. His work has been exhibited in major European and international museums, including the Institut du Monde Arabe and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the British Museum in London, and the Jordan National Gallery in Amman.