Roger Bezombes has a very extensive entry in Benezit, the most important dictionary of artists. Bezombes was a student at the Ecole des Beaux beginning in 1934. In 1936, he was the recipient of a prize which sent him to Africa, and he was the recipient of the Grand Prix artists' prize in Rome in the same year. Bezombes was also a follower of the influential artist Maurice Denis, and his work began to refer heavily to artists such as Gaugin, Van Gogh, and Matisse. He won the Hallmark Prize in 1949 and the Grand Prix National in 1946. Bezombes was an inveterate traveler, using his travels to influence the style and subject matter of his work. In the 50s, he traveled to Belgium, Germany, Italy, Greece, Crete, Israel, North Africa, and the United States. As of 1954, he became a teacher at the prestigious Academie Julian in Paris. Bezombes works were regularly exhibited in Paris at the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Artistes Independants, and the Tuileries. He consistently exhibited at many international group exhibtions, for which he very often received prizes for his work. Some of thesme include Cairo (1937), Copenhagen (1938), Geneva and New York (1939), Bucharest, Sofia and Athens (1940), Istanbul and Ankara (1941), Lisbon and Barcelona (1942), and Valence and Rio de Janeiro (1945). It is no wonder then, that his work is beloved across the world for its powerful and inimitable stlye.