Biography
Maurice Jadot (b. Brussels, Belgium 1893 - d. 1983) studied art at Académie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (1910-14) and also architecture under Victor Horta (1861-1947). He came to England in 1919. Jadot, who was chairman of the Belgian Cultural Centre in Britain and a founder-member of the Free Painters and Sculptors, with Roy Rassmussen and Lyall Watson, exhibited in several countries on the continent as well as at the Drian Gallery, London (1958 - 60) and the ICA (1961) and in the same year at Galeries d'Art du Fauberg, Paris. His 70th and 75th birthdays were celebrated by exhibitions at the Molton Gallery, London, 1963 and 1968, with a retrospective of paintings and sculpture at the John Whibley Gallery, London, 1973. In 1979 he had a retrospective at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Past exhibitions have included a major retrospective at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle (1967); John Whibley Gallery, London (1971 and 1973); Belgisches Haus, Cologne (1978); National Museum Wales, Cardiff (1979); Atkinson Gallery, Southport (1981). Public collections holding his work include the Museum of Modern Art, Brussels, the National Museum of Wales and the Nalecz Collection, Museum of Warsaw, in Poland. Leinster Contemporary Art held a review show in 1987.
