Dado (Miodrag Ðuric known as) (1933-2010)
Untitled 1958
Oil on jute canvas
Signed and dated upper right
Countersigned and dated on reverse
92 x 60 cm
Provenance :
- Paris, Christie's sale, "Collection Mrs Darthea Speyer", 7 July 2010, lot 249
- Acquired from the latter by the current owner
- Private collection, Paris
Our thanks to Mrs Amarante Szidon for the information she kindly provided on this work
Note : The work was made during Dado's first years in France, in Paris, as the series of Babies.
These babies were the subject of the artist's first exhibition at the Galerie Daniel Cordier in 1958, where the pencil motif is quite obsessive in this period