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(b Hobart,1908; d Majorca, March 16, 1991). Australian painter. Bellette studied at Hobart Technical School, then at Julian Ashton’s Sydney Art School. She married fellow student Paul Haefliger (1914–82) in 1935 and they moved to London in 1936, where Bellette studied at the Westminster School under Bernard Meninsky (1891–1950) and Mark Gertler. After returning to Sydney in 1939, the couple became leading figures in the Sydney art world. Bellette wrote articles for Art in Australia, exhibited with the Contemporary Art Society (1940–55) and in 1945, together with Haefliger, helped to found the Sydney Group. Bellette painted landscape, still-life and nude subjects, but is renowned for her compositions of monumental figures clothed in classical drapery within generalized landscapes. Her art is considered to be part of the international classical revival in avant-garde art, which she had seen in London. However, in 1947, the Adelaide surrealist and critic, Ivor Francis (1906–93), claimed her work for Surrealism, likening it to that of the metaphysical painters Giorgio de Chirico and Massimo Campigli. Bellette’s figure compositions clearly evoke interior states of mind and, with their titles from classical mythology, such as ...