Moment Blue, Emile Bellet, 23 1/2” x 19 1/2” Lithograph w/spot varnish UNFRAMED

Moment Blue by Emile Bellet, 23 1/2” x 19 1/2” Lithograph with spot varnish UNFRAMED, Printed signature lower right. Emile Bellet was a self-taught artist who aligned himself with the discipline of the Fauves (French for “wild beasts”)—a school of artists who lived at the turn of the 20th century that includes Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, Raoul Dufy, and Maurice de Vlaminck. They painted in vivid non-authentic color, and Bellet mastered this discipline with an impasto knife, using highly saturated colors to paint his elongated mannerist forms. Bellet’s paintings often center on a mysterious figure, representing a timeless and ageless femininity.