In 1929, Jean Hélion broke into the history of modern art by founding the first French avant-garde (Art concret), dedicated to a radically abstract art. He began a return to figuration, which he never left after 1943. “L’allumeur” (‘The Lighter’) exhibited at the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, was painted in 1944. His latest works compensate his increasing blindness with a chromatic incandescence. Today he is considered the precursor of the German Fauvists of the 1970s and the figurative artists of the 1980s. A major acquisition for the Unterlinden Museum.