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Dado at Hérouval in 1970. Photo: Alain Zingg.Untitled, 1970, oil on canvas, 162 × 260 cm. Novica Jovović collection. Photo: Lazar Pejović.Left: The Great Plant Police, 1969, oil on canvas, 265 × 192 cm. Courtesy Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Right: Green Europe, 1969-1970, oil on canvas, 244 × 200 cm. Courtesy Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
1970Retrospective at the Centre National d’Art Contemporain in Paris, where Dado shows his car, a “Traction Avant”, covered in painted bones. The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam purchases three paintings: The Great Plant Police (1969), Green Europe (1969-1970) and The Male Nurse (1969). Purchase by the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain of Great Blue Beach.
Front-wheel Drive, 1968-1975. Skeletonization of the car. Photos: Domingo Djuric.
Great Beach, 1969, oil on canvas, 192 × 366 cm. Photo: Pascal Szidon.
1971The Swimming Pool enters the collection of the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam. Stays in Corsica on the holiday camp of Dr. Hoffman with the collectors M. and Mme Boulois. They introduce him to Jean-François Jaeger. Begins a collaboration with the Jeanne-Bucher Gallery that is to last five years. Exhibition at the Thérèse Roussel Gallery in Perpignan of the 25 engravings made in 1967 with assistance from Alain Controu. This is the first event showing this new aspect of Dado’s work.
The Swimming Pool, 1971, oil on canvas, 192 × 365 cm. Collection Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Photo: John Tromp.
Dado painting The Cemetery at Montmartre and British Graves in 1971. Photo: DR.British Graves, 1971, oil on canvas, 193 × 259 cm. Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo, Norway.
1972Dado devotes his time increasingly to engraving, encouraged by J.-F. Jaeger and still with advice from Alain Controu. Thirty-five plates are engraved, to be published by the Jeanne-Bucher Gallery. Proofs are deposited by the artist in the Print Department at the French National Library. Acquisition of two White Foodstuffs, by Robert Malaval, a friend. Birth of Amarante.
Left: Dado among the Pygmies in 1974. Right: Amarante before a White Foodstuff by Malaval, November 11, 1981. Photo: Domingo Djuric.
The Way of the Cross, 1973, oil on canvas, 193 × 365 cm. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Gift of Mr. Joachim Jean Aberbach, New York. Photo: Charles Mayer Photography.
1974Second retrospective – devoted exclusively to paintings – at the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam. The Way of the Cross (1973) enters the collection of the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, near Boston. Dado follows a medical mission with J.-F. Jaeger’s brother, Dr. Georges Jaeger, to the Central African Republic, among the Pygmies. Starts a collaboration with the brothers Jean and Julian Aberbach, whose gallery is in New York.
Julian Aberbach and Dado in 1978 at Westhampton Beach, New York.Dado, Vilaï Permchit and Erró, at Hérouval, c. 1975.
1975Dado realizes fourteen lithographs printed by Pierre Badey and published by Piet Moget (Dermatologie portfolio).
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Dermatologie, 1975, lithograph printed on Arches paper, 50 × 65 cm.
Dermatologie, 1975, lithograph printed on Arches paper, 50 × 65 cm.
Dermatologie, 1975, lithograph printed on Arches paper, 65 × 50 cm.
Dermatologie, 1975, lithograph printed on Arches paper, 65 × 50 cm.
Dermatologie, 1975, lithograph printed on Arches paper, 50 × 65 cm.
Dermatologie, 1975, lithograph printed on Arches paper, 50 × 65 cm.
Dermatologie, 1975, lithograph printed on Arches paper, 50 × 65 cm.
Dermatologie, 1975, lithograph printed on Arches paper, 65 × 50 cm.
Dermatologie, 1975, lithograph printed on Arches paper, 50 × 65 cm.
Dermatologie, 1975, lithograph printed on Arches paper, 50 × 65 cm.
Dermatologie, 1975, lithograph printed on Arches paper, 50 × 65 cm.
Dermatologie, 1975, lithograph printed on Arches paper, 50 × 65 cm.
Dermatologie, 1975, lithograph printed on Arches paper, 50 × 65 cm.
Dermatologie, 1975, lithograph printed on Arches paper, 65 × 50 cm.
1976Dado donates to the Pompidou Center Hérouval Diptych (1975-1976).
1977Montjavoult Diptych (1976-1977) enters the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. He has a growing interest for bibliophilic printing, making fifteen engravings for the Book of Job, on which he will rework later, using gouache.
Montjavoult Diptych, 1976-1977, diptych, oil on canvas, 150 × 500 cm. Each panel: 150 × 250 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
1978The Scaler Foundation gives an old work by the artist, Limbo or The Massacre of the Innocents (1958-1959), to the Pompidou Center. Until the 1980s, Dado will tend to concentrate on graphic art: drawing, engraving, collage.
Dado with Isy Brachot at the opening of his drawings exhibition at the Isy Brachot Gallery on November 16th, 1978. Photo: Michel-Alain Barjou. Courtesy Archives Brachot.