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Zakhor
HistoryFigure1913–1960

Region: Constantine (Algérie), Paris

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Born in the casbah of Constantine in a Berber Jewish family, he came to Paris in 1930 to study philosophy. He began painting in 1941; from 1945 he developed lyrical abstraction influenced by the CoBrA group. He became established in the 1950s as one of the major representatives of the « New School of Paris ». Died in Paris in 1960.

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