The Lyon Impressionist To look at the surviving works of Adrien Bas is to witness a specific, localized rebellion against academic rigidity. Born in Lyon in 1884, Bas did not seek the global stage of Paris, but instead focused his technical energy on the light and atmosphere of his home region. His training at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon under Pierre Bonnaud provided him with a solid foundation, yet his later output moved far beyond the classroom. He was a painter of the immediate and the tangible. His development was marked by a shift from traditional structures tow…