Bruno-Émile Laurent, known as BEL, is a French painter born in 1928. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon des Artistes français, also the Montmartre museum exhibits several of his works, and the Moulin-Rouge, which considers him the last great painter of Montmartre, publishes lithographs of his works. Laurent in 1987, he decided to open his studio-gallery, which made him one of the personalities of the Butte. Located on the lower part of Montmartre, among his favorite subjects are views of Montmartre under the snow and the Lapin Agile, also BEL was inclined to specialize on painting of the Montmartre scene, although his subjects also range from flowers to views of Paris, New York street scenes, and landscapes of Provence or the interiors of cafés.

Considered one of the greatest painters of the "School of Montmartre", several retrospectives of his work have taken place, as the nostalgia is at the heart of his inspiration: sensitive to the Paris of yesteryear, that of "bougnats, sellers of coal, merchants of the four seasons who moved with their cart" in his youth, he readily integrates legendary characters such as the songwriter. Aristide Bruant, the dancers of the French cancan and views of the missing Montmartre. With a touch of humor and hedonism, he revisits film masterpieces such as Les Enfants du paradis, La Traversée de Paris. It pays tribute to Vincent van Gogh, to Auguste Renoir, to the Medrano circus. Enamored of freedom and anxious to make the spectator dream, Bruno-Émile Laurent goes against spectacular contemporary art, even nihilist and provocative, in favor of a conscientious and descriptive profession in the tradition of easel work, clean at the French fine arts.