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Self-Portrait at Sunset
Ofer Lellouche
1993
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Tunisian-born artist Ofer Lellouche emigrated from France to Israel in 1966. He is best known for self-portraiture and landscapes, which appear in a variety of media, including painting, etching, sculpture, and performance art. Since the late 1990s, Lellouche has concentrated on sculpture and etching.
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