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Biography
Lebadang was born in Vietnam
and emigrated to France
in 1939 to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
in Toulouse.
He had his first one-man show in Paris
in 1950 and over the next thirty years gained prominence throughout France and Germany. He came to the
attention of Americans in 1966 when the Cincinnati
Art Museum hosted the first
one-man exhibition of his paintings in the United States.
In his work Lebadang fuses the cultural
interests of the Orient and Europe,
creating graceful imagery in infinite variations of line, shape, and
color. He is recognized as an accomplished printmaker, having worked
extensively in the media of etching, lithography, and serigraphy.
"Lebadangraphy" is his
invention whereby he achieves harmony with a minimum of colors, using
the same silkscreens several times. His work
is held by the Rockefeller Collection and the Phoenix Art Museum,
among others.
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