Lot no. 30
- DADO (1933-2010)
Untitled - "Mozart
Collage with score and black print
Signed DADO 93
Significant stains
Framed size: 49 x 64 cm
Framed under glass
Numerous collages preserved at the Centre Georges Pompidou, with these scores often used as a support
Miodrag Duric' (born in Montenegro - Yugoslavia) trained at the Belgrade School of Fine Arts and moved to Paris in 1956. He quickly befriended Jean Dubuffet, already well known in the international art world, who introduced him to Daniel Cordier, a great Resistance fighter but above all an art dealer who would promote DADO. Living in Paris, Dado could no longer stand Parisian life and Cordier brought him to the French Vexin in 1958, first to Courcelles-les-Gisors, then to Hérouval, where he settled for the rest of his life. Hérouval, a hamlet of Montjavoult in the Oise department, was also the home of his late friend Michel P., to whom this fine collection belonged. These two villages in the Vexin are recurring themes in Dado's work, particularly the Hérouval diptych in the Centre Georges Pompidou, a major work.
For Dado, the 1970s were the years of institutional recognition, with retrospectives at the Centre National d'Art Contemporain, before he joined the Beaubourg gallery.
DADO was a singular artist who did not belong to any particular movement: he claimed to be attached to the marginalized and the excluded. The works presented here perfectly illustrate certain stages of his career, and above all the diversity of techniques mastered by DADO: painting, engraving, drawing, collage, only the sculptures are missing from our vacation.
When he moved to the Vexin, the style of his painting changed radically; from dark, it became luminous, and Dado captured this exceptional light:
"It was really love at first sight with my Norman and French Vexin, which I met at that moment. I said to myself, I've got my work cut out for me, if I live a few more decades, I'll still be able to admire the white frost in the morning, I'll still be able to admire the leaves in November, which insist on staying on the poplars, which are yellow - all the others are already on the ground. "
Interview with Christian Derouet, 1988
In this collection, woven together over the years by regular visits to Dado's studio, we can see portraits of Michel P. and his brother Roland: Roland and Michel, immortalised on the catalogue pages of the exhibition "Dado. L'exaspération du trait" exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in 1981.
Appraisal by Marc BRIAT
