A musician who made his living as a driver, Rigaud Benoit joined the Centre d'Art in 1944 (the year of its founding). Benoit's musicality is evident in the expressions of his faces. He reveals beauty in human form and plant life. As a spiritualist who married Hector Hyppolite's daughter, Benoit's scenes reference liberatory practice. A first generation artist from the Centre d'Art, his work was shown internationally early in his career starting with the 1947 UNESCO exhibition in Paris. Benoit was an incredibly detailed painter producing a select and limited body of work.

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