![]() ![]() Whistler and Boldini, Debussy and Fauré, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Proust, Goncourt, and Mallarmé among his entourage. He entered the Salon of 1882 with a portrait and this is the genre which led him to fame: as an elegant dandy, his slender silhouette always clothed in black was noticed by Robert de Montesquiou, the refined intellectual, arbiter of good taste during the Belle Epoque. By 1880, he painted portraits for Deck, the ceramicist in whose studio he made friends with Boldini. Helleu made his mark in Gérôme’s studio, where his talent and sure artistic taste fascinated his companions. ![]() “He was the most adept, the most gifted, Manet, Monet, Renoir believed as did we,” wrote his dear friend Jacques-Emile Blanche about Paul César Helleu. ![]()
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