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1864 New Dabo, France - 1960 New York City. Known for: River-scene and still life painting, decoration, murals.
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.... Read full biography
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.... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 radar of art historians. Albert Douglas, 91, Dabo's only grandson,... Read full biography
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 radar of art historians. Albert Douglas, 91, Dabo's only grandson, told art dealers during a recent filmed interview that he hardly knew his grand... Read full biography