het zichtbare letterlijk overvloeit in het onherkenbare.  

As early as 1912, Jacob Bendien was already painting fully abstract compositions. Lines and areas of colour represent the energy of different moods. He was 38 and very ill when he made this figurative drawing. At that point in his life, he was particularly interested in how the material and the spiritual merge, how what is clear becomes abstract. He would die five years later.  [text 2026]