Ouanes Amor (; 10 October 1936 – 25 December 2024) was a French

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. He was born in Tunisia and emigrated to France at the age of 17. In 1960, became a student of Roger Chastel, and in 1970, he became an assistant to

Gustave Singier Gustave Singier (11 February 1909, Warneton5 May 1984, Paris) was a Belgian abstract art, non-figurative painter active in France as part of the new Paris School of Lyrical Abstraction and the Salon de Mai. Early life He spent his childhood in ...

. In 1980, Amor became a professor at the

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in Paris. Amor's work is represented in the collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the

New National Museum of Monaco The New National Museum of Monaco (NMNM), formerly Musée National de Monaco (), is a museum of contemporary visual art in Monaco. It is situated in two locations, the Villa Sauber and the Villa Paloma. The museum began organizing temporary exhibi ...

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1936 births 2024 deaths French painters Tunisian emigrants to France {{france-bio-stub