The artist draws forth from the material an inescapable truth and a state of being — novel propositions to which the discomfited visitor is positively obliged to yield, in order to understand the work. In his paintings, Beaufour invents the “undecorated”: his portraits and characters are depicted right against the canvas. There is neither decoration nor scope for visual diversion; confusion is neither permitted, nor is a way out provided. Beaufour offers us works that are unflinching in their honesty and unpretentious. They are raw and brutal yet terribly endearing, as the mirrors of ourselves.

Emmanuelle de Rochegonde, the artist’s agent, with Frédéric Elkaïm, curator and contemporary art market specialist

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