# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-bilhaud
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:22:15.338Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-bilhaud"
name: "Paul Bilhaud"
slug: "paul-bilhaud"
description: "Paul Bilhaud was a French playwright and librettist. An old friend of the author Alphonse Allais, he is remembered along his friend as a forerunner of minimalism with his painting Combat de nègres pendant la nuit, displayed for the first time in 1882, more than thirty years before the Black Square by Kazimir Malevich. It had been missing since that time until it was rediscovered in a private collection in 2017–2018. It has been classified as a National Treasure by the French state. Bilhaud was not the first to create an all-black artwork: for example, Robert Fludd published an image of \"Darkness\" in his 1617 book on the origin and structure of the cosmos; and Bertall published his black Vue de La Hogue  in 1843. Inspired by Bilhaud, Alphonse Allais proposed other monochrome paintings, published in his Album primo-avrilesque in 1897."
tagline: "French playwright and librettist (1854-1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bilhaud%2C_P._(Le_Biographe%2C_1880-04).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1854-12-31"
deathDate: "1933-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.44
  momentum:             1.644295302013423
  historical:           3.945825333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082219/"
    handle:    "nm0082219"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bilhaud"
    title: "Paul Bilhaud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bilhaud"
    title: "Paul Bilhaud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Бийо, Поль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15969802"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1916684"
    title: "Paul Bilhaud"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump