<La Grande Ferme - Hommage à Bernard Réquichot>

Having recently settled in Hérouval, in the Vexin region of France, Dado undertook this monumental painting as a tribute to his friend, the painter Bernard Réquichot, who had recently passed away. In the style of Hieronymus Bosch, his Grande Ferme [Great Farm] depicts a procession full of monsters moving across the vast meadow that stretches out in front of the farmhouses visible on the horizon. Transformed into a theatre where figures and animals seem to sprout from all sides, this rural domain, littered with all manner of debris, becomes a nightmarish place under Dado's brush, unless it provokes a great outburst of laughter.