# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-helion
# Generated: 2026-09-02T23:01:44.721Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-helion"
name: "Jean Hélion"
slug: "jean-helion"
description: "Jean Hélion was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter. He was also the author of several books and an extensive body of critical writing."
tagline: "French painter (1904–1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J._Helion_(1904-1987).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1904-04-21"
deathDate: "1987-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.9
  momentum:             6.65158371040724
  historical:           10.10587066666667
  currentAttention:     23.75565610859729
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_H%C3%A9lion"
    title: "Jean Hélion"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_H%C3%A9lion"
    title: "Jean Hélion"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_H%C3%A9lion"
    title: "Jean Hélion"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_H%C3%A9lion"
    title: "Jean Hélion"
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  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_H%C3%A9lion"
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    title: "Jean Hélion"
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  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_H%C3%A9lion"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump