Michel Henricot The Chrysalis of the Human Being — DOP

Michel Henricot
The Chrysalis of the Human Being

September 19 2024

The legacy of French painter Michel Henricot (1936-2022) is surprisingly unknown today, considering the unique quality of his otherworldly embalmed figure studies. The portrayed bodies are realistically drawn yet seem to herald a transcendent realm of essence beyond life and death.

Henricot’s images were featured in Omni magazine that offered a platform for several artists that can be grouped together as fantastic realists: Ernst Fuchs, Mati Klarwein, Robert Venosa, De Es Schwertberger (all featured here before). Henricot was a friend of Leonor Fini, whose work also revolved around the human form and was also attributed to Surrealism, even though her own obsessive paintings evolved away from any particular school, just as it did for Henricot.

Painting and dreaming are almost the same thing. It’s important to paint your dreams, because that’s where the meaning of life lies.Michel Henricot

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