Bachir Yellès
Bachir Yellès (; born September 12, 1921) is an Algerian painter. 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, between the years 1960 and 1980. In his works, he continued using local themes but also experimented with Cubism, Expressionism, and Fauvism. Yellès turned 100 in September 2021.