Reclining Man

Jean Hélion was a French painter who moved between abstraction and figuration across his career, working primarily in oil on canvas. Initially aligned with constructivist and geometric abstraction in the 1930s, he shifted toward representational work in the postwar period, depicting urban scenes, interiors, and still lifes with a lyrical, structured approach. His paintings combine disciplined composition with a distinctive palette of muted earth tones and cool grays. Hélion remained a significant figure in mid-twentieth-century European painting, bridging the formal innovations of early modernism with a sustained engagement with the visible world.

Couterne, France