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Leon Dabo

Leon Dabo (1864 - 1960) was active/lived in New York / France.  Leon Dabo is known for River-scene and still life painting, decoration, murals.

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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 radar of art historians. Albert Douglas, 91, Dabo's only grandson, told art dealers during a recent filmed interview that he hardly knew his grandfather. He does remember a debonair gentleman fond of expensive liqueurs and chronically short of   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 16135 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Leon Dabo

   Leon Dabo  Born:  1864 - New Dabo, France
Died:   1960 - New York City
Known for:  River-scene and still life painting, decoration, murals
Name variants:  Leon Debo

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   ...  Displaying 750 of 16135 characters.

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