Ofer Lellouche

Ofer Lellouche (Hebrew: עופר ללוש, born 19 April 1947 in Tunis) is an Israeli painter, sculptor, etcher and video artist.

In 1968, during his service in the Israel Defense Forces, he contracted hepatitis and began to paint while recovering.

He returned to Paris to study with the sculptor César Baldaccini (1921–1998) and earn a master's degree in literature with a thesis on Stéphane Mallarmé.

In the early 1990s, Lellouche produced more than 600 etchings, illustrated Stéphane Mallarmé's poem, "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard", and published the books "Panim" (faces) and "Ein Karem".

In 1991, he returned to Paris and visited the location of César's studio, where he found some clay models on their bases and decided to make a series of works that would remind him of what he had seen.