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The mill at Hérouval. Photo: Domingo Djuric.
1960Dado moves into an old mill at Hérouval, near Gisors. Réquichot visits regularly him at weekends.
Dado at Hérouval in 1961. † Posthumous addition → read more Photo: Iannis Xenakis.
1961Dado is deeply affected by the death of Bernard Réquichot. This year also sees a new exhibit at Daniel Cordier’s gallery.
1962Dado stays in New York for three months, there meeting Hessie, a Cuban painter whom he marries, becoming the adoptive father of her two children, Yasfaro and Domingo. Hans Bellmer and his partner Unica Zürn visit Hérouval.
Left: Dado, Yasfaro and Domingo. Right: Untitled [Rooftop in New York], 1962, pencil on paper, 60,5 × 45,5 cm.Left: Dado and Yanitza. Right: Dado’s wife and their youngest son.
1963Dado becomes friends with Fahlström, one of the Cordier gallery’s other artists.
Left: Jean Delpech at Hérouval in 1964. Right: Louis Quilici at Hérouval in 1968.
1964Final show at the gallery of Daniel Cordier who shortly after announces its closure.
1965Hans Bellmer comes to Hérouval with André-François Petit. They start to collaborate in 1970. Birth of Yanitza; Unica Zürn is her godmother.
Germaine de Liencourt, Kateb Yacine, Dado, Domingo and Yasfaro at Hérouval, c. 1966.
Dado preparing lithographic stone at Hérouval in 1968. † Posthumous addition → read more Photo: Alain Zingg.
1968First State purchase: a painting, Hérouval (1967) and a Large fresco (1966) enter the collections of the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain. Dado realizes his first lithographs, pulled in a few copies, as gifts to friends who visit him. Birth of Malcolm. Michel Leiris visits his studio. Roland Penrose buys a painting.
The picture Roland Penrose bought from Dado. Untitled, 1967, 50 × 50 cm. Photo: Antony Penrose.