Bachir Yellès

Bachir Yellès (Arabic: بشير يلس;‎ 12 September 1921 – 16 August 2022) was an Algerian painter.

Yellès was born in Tlemcen on 12 September 1921.

[1] He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Algiers, then the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris.

He served as a director of the École supérieur des Beaux Arts d'Alger of Algiers,[2] between the years 1960 and 1980.

[3] In his works, he continued using local themes but also experimented with Cubism, Expressionism, and Fauvism.