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Signed lower right, 'Lebadang' and with number and limitation, 163/215, lower left.
Also known as Dang Lebadang (Vietnamese-French, 1922-2015) this notable artist was born in Quang Tri, Vietnam and moved to France in 1939 to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Toulouse. While studying there he was awarded numerous prizes both for painting and sculpture and also won his first commission. An accomplished printmaker, Lebadang favors the techniques of etching, lithograph, and serigraph.
He continued to achieve success in Paris and acquired a following that recognized and appreciated his subtle blend of European and Far Eastern culture and the philosophies reflected in it. During this period, the director of the Far Eastern Department at UNESCO commissioned him to illustrate a book of poetry which was published by Editions Euros.
Lebadang had his first one-man show in the United States, in 1966, with an exhibition of his paintings at the Cincinnati Art Museum and has since exhibited widely and with success throughout the United States and has been the recipient of prestigious awards including the Gold Medal at the International Institute of St. Louis (1989). In addition to the United States, his work has been exhibited internationally in Tokyo, Dusseldorf, Paris, Nantes, Cologne, Cannes and Aix en Provence galleries among others. The artist's work is held in the permanent collections of numerous public institutions including the Rockefeller Collection, New York, the Loo Collection in Tokyo, the Verkerke Collection, Holland, the Phoenix Art Museum, USA; Cincinnati Museum, USA; Columbia Art Institute, USA; Lund University Museum, Sweden and the Museum of Arts and Letters, France.
Reference:
E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 8, p. 371; De Bonnard a Baselitz - Dix ans d'enrichissements du Cabinet des Estampes 1978-1988, Bibliotheque nationale, Paris, 1992; et al.
- Creator:Hoi Lebadang (1922 - 2015, Vietnamese)
- Dimensions:Height: 29.75 in (75.57 cm)Width: 21.25 in (53.98 cm)
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- Condition:minor toning; unframed.
- Gallery Location:Santa Cruz, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU3445083602
Hoi Lebadang
Lebadang was born in 1921 in Bich-La-Dong, a village along the Huong River in Quang-Tri Province of Hue, Vietnam. He expressed himself through a variety of media, including painting, watercolor, sculpture, jewelry and graphic works. He often combined various media, creating sculptural, highly textured artwork. “Life is a sinking ship and work is a lifeboat.” This described her husband perfectly.
He lived in Paris since 1939, studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse for six years until his first one-man show in 1950. He created large-scale abstract oil paintings with vivid blues and glowing puddles of orange and red. Painting and printmaking were Lebadang’s most frequently used media but he also worked in terra cotta and a variety of other media, such as “Vessel” (1994). Whatever he created, each piece spoke to the entangled roles of man and nature. In his 1981 “La Comédie Humaine,” he wrote: “In my work, I use the circle, the magic symbol of life, to enclose reliefs and landscapes. It symbolizes that nature is inseparable from man. Man finds sustenance and spiritual nourishment in every source.” And while the human form was not represented figuratively in his work until the late 1970s, he confirmed that man was always present.. His oil paintings of the ’60s are ambiguous at first glance, yet the faint outlines of boats, bridges, and horses gently float to the top. After his shift in style, bringing definition to his paintings, these dreams were made more lucid. Many of his figures become emotive and highly dramatic, this time with visible faces. . Mixing media, he painted aerial scenes of mountains and oceans where the viewer was stationed in the heavens. These paintings elaborated on man’s relationship to the natural world, continuously presented as a flurry of memories. Memories—objects that haunt the entire oeuvre of the artist—are a familiar subject to Lebadang. “Art, in all its forms, whether literature, philosophy, or the visual arts, expresses an attempt to understand the riddle of life and helps lessen the fear of death,” he wrote. His work is exhibited in many public and private collections, including the Cincinnati Museum of Art in Ohio, the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, the Rockefeller Collection in New York, the Foundation Museum in Kenya, the Lund University Museum in Sweden, the Loo Collection in Tokyo, and the Museum of Arts and Letters in France. Lebadang was honored with numerous awards and accolades during his career. He also designed an award for the International Institute of St. Louis. The Lebadang Award is presented biannually to an individual who has demonstrated extraordinary volunteer service. The award program was established by the institute in 1989 to recognize organizations and individuals who exemplify “Peace within you, your country, and the world.” “My artwork is often strange but simple,” Lebadang once said. “So everyone can hopefully feel happy and relaxed, and that’s why they like them.”
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