Dado – Biographical timeline
The 1960s
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1960Dado settles in an old mill in Hérouval, near Gisors, with the help of Daniel Cordier. Bernard Réquichot comes to see him often at the end of a week. Together they go to the slaughterhouse at la Bellée, a few kilometres from Hérouval, to collect bones that Réquichot uses in his reliquaries and Dado in his first sculptures. Exhibition at the Galerie Daniel Cordier in Frankfurt. Dado takes part in two “Anti-trial” exhibitions organised by Alain Jouffroy and Jean-Jacques Lebel in support of Francis Jeanson, the leader of the “support network” at FLN, whose book, Notre guerre, published by Éditions de Minuit, is on trial.
1961Iannis Xenakis and Luc Ferrari, met at Patris’ studio, visit him in Hérouval. Dado is deeply affected by the suicide of Bernard Réquichot in December, which happened on the eve of the opening of the latter’s exhibition. With Yolande Fièvre, he is the only artist of the Galerie Cordier to pay him homage with a painting. That year he exhibits again at the Galerie Daniel Cordier.
1962On the occasion of his first exhibition on American soil, organised in March by the Galerie Cordier-Ekström, Dado spends three months in New York and meets Hessie. She joins him in France in July of the same year, and Dado adopts her two children, Yasfaro and Domingo. During his stay in the USA, he discovers The Farm (1921-1922) by Joan Miró at MoMA, which he calls a “fetish painting”, and on his return to Hérouval, he begins working on The Big Farm. Homage to Bernard Réquichot. Visit of Hans Bellmer and his partner Unica Zürn to Hérouval. Dado becomes friends with Öyvind Fahlström, one of the artists at the Galerie Cordier, who lives a few kilometres from Hérouval. Dado will regularly pay tribute to him in his works following his premature death in 1976.
AM 1989-277. Photo: © Béatrice Hatala – Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Dist. RMN-GP.
1964Last exhibition at the Galerie Daniel Cordier which announces, shortly after, its closure.
1965Hans Bellmer takes André-François Petit, Dalí’s dealer, to Hérouval. They collaborate until 1970. Birth of Yanitza, whose godmother is Unica Zürn. New phase in his painting, which shows a really smooth technique.
1966Parallel to his intense activity as a painter, Dado makes his first engraving at Georges Visat’s studio, where he meets Alain Controu, his future copper-plate printer.
Right: Dado and Alain Controu.
Centre National des Arts Plastiques – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris.
En dépôt au musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole (© Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, cl. Pierre Guenat).
Skeletonization of the car. Photos: Domingo Djuric.
1968First acquisition by the State: a painting, Hérouval (1967) and a Large Fresco (1966) enter the collection of Fonds national d’art contemporain. On a press set up in his studio, Dado makes several lithographs for a project on an “anatomy book” that will not be published. Birth of Malcolm. Michel Leiris visits his studio. Roland Penrose buys a painting from him. Creation of La Traction, a front-wheel drive covered in painted bones that will be shown in the retrospective at Centre national d’art contemporain two years later.
