Jean Hélion
France (1904—1987)After studying engineering and architecture, Hélion took up painting following a trip to Paris in 1921. He worked as a draughtsman in an architectural practice before helping establish the Abstraction-Création movement in 1931, becoming one of the leading figures in non-objective painting. He returned to figurative painting in 1939 and, during his imprisonment in WWII, wrote a memoir about his captivity and escape, They Shall Not Have Me, published in 1943.
