Born in Brussels in 1914, Stevo became active in European artistic life with his first exhibition in 1936.
[1] Among his friends and associates may be counted figures such as James Ensor, Félix Labisse, Jean Cocteau, René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, and Max Ernst.
Jean Cassou, the Director of the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris commented on Stevo's work: "In his varied activities, Jean Stevo has devoted himself to a lyrical effusion, to the fantastic of the imagination, to the shadows of human destiny.
the clear structure of his work clings to the page and, at the same time, animates it like a poem always vibrant with life."
A retrospective of Stevo'art work took place in 1975 under the auspices of the Maison française at Columbia University.