David Avramov Perets was born on February 19, 1906 in Plovdiv. In 1932, he graduated in Painting at the Academy of Arts, Sofia, in the class of Prof. Dimitar Gyuzhenov. His first works are figurative compositions and portraits, in which the author's innovative handwriting is visible.

He ended up in a labor camp during World War II (1943). Instead of returning desperate and humiliated, he brought back a series of portrait drawings of other Jews who had also been forced to do forced labor. After 1947 he went to France. He first specialized in painting in Paris in the class of the world-renowned pedagogue Andre Lot. After a short stay in Israel from 1948 he remained living and working in Paris.

From 1950, a new period in his art began. He created landscapes of South France with decorative beauty.

Before the 1960s and 1970s, he created paintings characteristic of the painting trends current in Paris in the 1950s.

David Peretz died on May 28, 1982 in Paris.

Participated in OHI, in most exhibitions of the Society of South Bulgarian Artists, in exhibitions in France, etc. countries.

He held solo exhibitions in Sofia (1939, 1946, 1977), Paris (1952, 1954), London (1955, 1958, 1962), Toulon (France, 1959), Tel Aviv (1966). His works are owned by the National Museum of Art, the Museum of Art in Plovdiv, Stara Zagora; The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Library in Paris, the Art Gallery in Toulon and many private collections in Bulgaria. France, USA, England, Canada, Romania, Israel. 

Awarded the Medal of Art and Culture - 1st century, from Romania (1947), prize from the exhibition of the School of Paris in Paris (1952), the Prize of Israel (1952), silver medal from the Paris Municipality for the landscape "Palais Royale" (1957).