[1] He was born in Quebec City in 1922 and studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, where he met Mimi Parent, whom he married in 1948.
The dark, grotesque characters wore sharp, seemingly mechanical pieces mixing biomorphic, animalistic shapes that make the humans look like torture devices.
Breton mentioned Benoit in Surrealism and Painting: "STAND ASIDE to let the Marquis de Sade pass 'in his own likeness' and reinvented by Jean Benoît with all his powers."
Benoît was active and remained productive, working every day on his art until he died on August 20, 2010, in Paris.
The memorial service was scheduled for September 11, 2010 at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris by the Benoît family.