Collection Société Générale

Oil on canvas

From 1956, Benrath became the most famous of the Nuagiste (Cloudist) group, and painted large, dark and horizontal surfaces bathed in light. Finally, he gave up apply paint in a controlled manner, and instead allowed the paint, as here in Mes Archipels (My Archipelagos), to spread slowly across the canvas, a technique he called the “flowing change of the picture".



© Adagp, Paris, 1991