Louis Bellon

Louis Bellon (1909-1998).  Alumnus of Antoine Chartres, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon. His art was deeply inflenced from a multitude of sources: André Lhote, the Neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat, the young artists of Les Nabis, the intimism of Pierre Bonnard, the delicate art of Paul Cézanne, the Cubism of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, the exciting colors of Matisse, the Orphism (so named by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire) of Robert and Sonia Delaunay. 

In 1938, Bellon was elected a member of the Salon of the South-East, one of the most prestigious arts organizations of Lyon, where many important contemporary artists exhibited. It was there that Bellon met the Nabis painter Paul Sérusier, allied himself with the Cubist Albert Gleizes, and discovered in the work of Paul Klee an artistic inspiration similar to his art. His works are exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art of Lyon and in numerous private collections.