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.