<Les Correspondances>

In 1955, the French painter Frédéric Benrath began his major series Zones d'insécurité [Zones of Insecurity], to which this work belongs. In these mostly monochrome paintings, sometimes streaked by bright bursts of colour, he scratched vigorously with the tip of a knife into all or part of the surface while the paint was still wet. Les Correspondances [Correspondences] features a luminous, reddish swirl strewn with scratch marks, possibly representing a psychic state manifested in atmospheric form. Elements of nature seem to collide, materializing as clouds and violent winds.