Dado – Biographical timeline
The 1970s
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Right: Green Europe, 1969-1970, oil on canvas, 244 × 200 cm. Courtesy Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
1970Retrospective at the Centre national d’art contemporain (Cnac) in Paris organised by Marcel Billot and Germain Viatte. Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam acquires three paintings: The Great Plant Police (1969), Green Europe (1969-1970) and The Male Nurse (1969). Acquisition of Great Blue Beach by the Fonds national d’art contemporain.
Photo: © Les Méchantes Petites Filles.
1971In August, first return journey to Montenegro since his arrival in France in 1956. The Swimming Pool enters the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Sojourns in Corsica, at the holiday camp of Dr Hoffman with the collectors, the Boulois couple. They introduce him to Jean-François Jaeger. He begins a collaboration with the Galerie Jeanne-Bucher which will last five years. Exhibition at the Galerie Thérèse Roussel in Perpignan of twenty-five engravings made in 1967 with the assistance of Alain Controu. It is the first event showing this new aspect of the artist’s work.
Collection Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Photo: John Tromp.
1972Dado takes part in the exhibition “60-72, douze ans d’art contemporain en France” which takes place at the Grand Palais. He devotes more and more time to engraving, encouraged by Jean-François Jaeger and still assisted by Alain Controu. Thirty-five plates are engraved and will be edited by the Galerie Jeanne-Bucher. Proofs are deposited by the artist at the Département des estampes at the Bibliothèque nationale. Purchase of two White Foodstuffs by Robert Malaval, a friend. Birth of Amarante.
Right: Amarante before a White Foodstuff by Malaval, November 11, 1981. Photo: Domingo Djuric.
Gift of Mr. Joachim Jean Aberbach, New York. Photo: Charles Mayer Photography.
1974Second retrospective, paintings exclusively, at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The Way of the Cross (1973) enters the collections of the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, near Boston. Dado accompanies a medical mission led by Dr Georges Jaeger, the brother of Jean-François Jaeger, to the Central African Republic, among the Pygmies. He begins collaborating with the brothers Jean and Julian Aberbach, whose gallery is in New York.
1975Makes fourteen lithographs printed by Pierre Badey and published by Piet Moget in a portfolio (Dermatologie).
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1976Dado donates Hérouval Diptych to the Centre Pompidou, a painting made between 1975 and 1976. In collaboration with Alain Controu, he engraves, between 1976 and 1978, fifteen plates to illustrate the Book of Job. Because he could not find a publisher, Dado confesses later having wanted to “smash the Book of Job” by reworking the whole print with gouache before cutting it up in 1979 to make a series of collages, a technique he had been enjoying for the previous two years, encouraged by Jean-François Jaeger (The Butcher of Saint Nicholas, 1974, Mayfair House, 1974). Publication of the first edition of Alphabets, a collection of 176 poems in eleven verses by Georges Perec, at Éditions Galilée (Michel Delorme), which he illustrates with 21 drawings in Indian ink and an engraving in black. Dado will rework those drawings in colour for a subsequent edition published in 1985.
© Collection Centre Pompidou, Dist. Rmn. Photographs: Christian Bahier and Philippe Migeat.
1977Montjavoult Diptych (1976-1977) enters the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
© Collection Centre Pompidou, Dist. Rmn. Photo: Georges Meguerditchian.
1978The Scaler Foundation donates to the Centre Pompidou a work by the artist, Limbo (1958-1959), known by the title The Massacre of the Innocents. Until the 1980s, Dado essentially devotes himself to the graphic arts: drawing, engraving and collage.
