Search: 84 results found for "west african painting"

Curator's Note

A woman's head floats a hand's width above her shoulders and casts its own shadow. Clement Obioha turns the caricaturist's instinct inward,…

Igbo

Monologue

Chibuike Clement ObiohaChibuike C. O.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Dense black-and-white illustration of a large face with closed eyes, a hand holding a small vessel, a serpent with a face, a many-faced figure, and women dancing, drumming and carrying below.

STU. 59/60

Curator's Note

The most crowded of Yeko's pictures, and the most devotional. There is a great face with closed eyes, a hand lifting a small vessel, women …

Ugandan

Offerings

Marjory Yeko JewittMarjory Y. J.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration on rust red of a round blue mask face with six striped hair knots, cowrie shell earrings and an orange patterned comb as its body; a letter A and small copies in the corners.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

KeO turns a girl's name into a playing card. There is a looping A in the corners, a mask at the centre, and in place of a body, a comb. Abi…

Yoruba

Abike

Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel KomaiyaOluwatobiloba E. K.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black and yellow illustration of the National Theatre, Lagos, with its ribbed cap-shaped roof, a construction crane at left, a smiling yellow sun, a man walking and a white car in front.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

The building every Lagosian can draw from memory, its roof shaped like a general's cap, with a working crane standing beside it. Anth Ezeok…

Yoruba

National Theatre, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Painting of a bald man squatting with eyes closed, one hand on his chest and the other touching the ground, while three dark shadowy figures with raised hands stand behind him in grey-green smoke.

STU. 19/20

Curator's Note

A man squats with one hand drawing chalk on the ground and the other pressed to his heart, as shadow figures close in. For Joshua Omoijiade…

Undeclared

Prayer

Yr. 2021

Joshua OmoijiadeJoshua O.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black and yellow illustration of Makoko, Lagos: a stilt house over water, a man poling a canoe, children in a second canoe, a long bridge on the horizon and a yellow sun with a pale ring.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Most people see Makoko from the bridge. Anth Ezeokoye brings us down to the water, where a man poles his canoe and children ride beside him…

Yoruba

Makoko, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration on green of a round mask face with a red fringe, two red buns, heavy-lidded blue eyes, tongue out, blue comb-shaped earrings and a red bead loop; letter S and small copies in corners.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

The cheekiest of KeO's named cards: lashes lowered, tongue out, and a pair of combs hung at her ears as earrings. He takes the humblest too…

Yoruba

Shindara

Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel KomaiyaOluwatobiloba E. K.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Abstract digital artwork on black: an iridescent form in teal, violet and yellow surrounding a circle split between blue marbling and a black-and-white maze pattern, with orange accents.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

The rare Ai_mayor picture with no face in it, only the surfaces he usually builds faces from. At its centre a round window splits between l…

Yoruba

Vignette

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

For Yeko, the mask is where a people and their gods meet. Source draws a face in profile built entirely from pattern, cowries, eyes and wav…

Ugandan

Source

Marjory Yeko JewittMarjory Y. J.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Digital illustration of three dancers in red, teal and cream patterned bodysuits with white sashes, pale tiered fringe on the legs and blue blooms with plumes in their hair; one raises an arm.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

In Nigeria, a celebration has not begun until someone dances. Ekundayo catches three dancers at its height, faces left in soft pencil, the …

Yoruba

The Dance

Yr. 2022

Adeyemo EkundayoAdeyemo E.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustrated portrait of a woman with a solid black face, almond eyes and pink lips, framed by gold circles and chevrons, beneath dense swirling red, blue, green and white lines on black.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Nerome Borke gives her the darkest, calmest surface in the picture and rings it with gold. So everything restless happens around her and ne…

Undeclared

Neya

Yr. 2022

Nerome BorkeNerome B.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black and yellow illustration of Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos: the control tower, 'MURTALA MUHAMMED AIRPORT LAGOS' lettering, a plane taking off, a parked plane and a ZENITH sign.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

One plane parked, one lifting away: the two halves of every trip home. Anth Ezeokoye spells the airport's name across the terminal exactly …

Yoruba

Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

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Monologue

Offerings

Abike

National Theatre, Lagos

Prayer

Makoko, Lagos

Shindara

Vignette

Source

The Dance

Neya

Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos