About Leon Dabo

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Leon Debo
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    The following is from The New York Times Art & Design section, courtesy of Paul Gallagher, Stillwell House Fine Art and Antiques

    Antiques Restoration Project: An Artist's History and His Collection
    By EVE M. KAHN
    Published: July 19, 2012

    Leon Dabo's own descendants have heard little about him. Dabo, a French-born painter, died in 1960, at 96, after a restless career living in and around New York and in Europe and exhibiting in hundreds of group and solo shows. His early subjects were saints, and later he favored twilit riverbanks, battlefields, bouquets and eerie pastures striped with dead trees.

    Dabo ended up estranged from his family, and he has largely fallen off the ...

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