Jean
Tabaud was born in France and came to the United States for the first
time in 1953. He kept an international schedule for many years before
settling down at his studio in New York. During his exciting career,
he has done portraits of the Stavros Niarchos family, Baroness Fiona
von Thyssen, Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer, Mrs. Mellon-Warner and her
children, Mrs. Ted Kennedy, the Henry Ford family, Mrs. Pierre S.
du Pont III, John Kenneth Gaibraith and many others. He retired to
country life in Pawling, N.Y. in 1974, where, in the peacefu] isolation
of wooded hills, he devotes most of his time to writing, a strong
inclination he has long suppressed.
In
recent years, he has pursued his love for portrait painting and drawing
exclusively in Houston, where he visits each winter to retrieve the
company of old friends while escaping the snow of his Pawling woods.
