Leon Bellefleur
Léon Bellefleur (1910–2007) was a Montréal painter and engraver whose work helped shape the development of non-figurative art in Québec. Initially a teacher, he turned fully to painting in the 1940s, joining the Society of Contemporary Art and Alfred Pellan’s Prisme d’Yeux movement. Influenced by Surrealism and Automatism, his luminous, gestural abstractions combine dynamic colour with experimental engraving techniques refined in Paris. A recipient of Québec’s first Paul-Émile Borduas Award (1977) and member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, his work is held in major collections across Canada and internationally.
