Percy White, a prominent painter and the dean of Jewish artists in Australia, died here yesterday at the age of 81. Born Peretz Witofski in Lithuania, Mr. White attended the Vilna Art School where one of his fellow students was Marc Chagall. After studying and working in Leningrad, Berlin and Paris, he went to England where he exhibited with the than unknown sculptor Jacob Epstein. He emigrated to Australia in 1926.
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