Search: 84 results found for "West African painting"

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.

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.

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.

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.

Surreal portrait of a figure with locs and folded arms in a black sweater, face blacked out except silver eyes and lips, a red and blue betta fish on the shoulder, on a yellow-to-pink gradient.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

The face is filled with black, leaving only silver eyes and lips, so the person stays unnamed. The one bright, living thing is a red and bl…

Yoruba

Somebody

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Portrait of a woman with two afro buns in black and white, diagonal shadow stripes across her face, a pink dahlia behind her head, a hand on her shoulder, on a peach-to-violet gradient.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Her face is drawn in black and white while everything around her blooms in colour. Then you notice the hand resting on her shoulder, the on…

Yoruba

Missus

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Digital artwork of a frontal head and neck covered in black and white marbling, with teal, pink and pale blue lilies behind it and a black sphere beside the cheek, on a deep violet background.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

The face is all there, looking straight at us, and still it nearly vanishes. Black and white marbling runs across the features until skin b…

Undeclared

Camouflage

Yr. 2023

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Deep blue-black skin, a gold halo, heavy pearls at the throat, arms folded close. Dayo turns the figure away from us and lowers the eyes, a…

Yoruba

Black and Gold

Dayo Gerard AkindoyeniDayo G. A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration of a blue-skinned woman, head tilted back and eyes closed, white scalloped pattern on face and chest, flower earring, flying bead necklace, before a pale dripping moon on red swirls.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Notice Me is a title that asks, and a pose that does not need to. Her head is tipped back, eyes closed, beads flying loose from her throat:…

Yoruba

Notice Me

Yr. 2023

Michael C. EkenobiMichael C. E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Digital portrait of a woman in black and white with shaved head tipped back and eyes closed, a white circle drawn around one eye, framed by blue and magenta Ankara wax-print fabric and peach satin petals.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

Silk has always meant luxury. Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon gives the word to Ankara, wrapping a woman in Nigeria's beloved wax-print cloth: our …

Yoruba

In Silk

Yr. 2023

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Black-and-yellow illustration of a crowd walking toward the Lekki toll gate in Lagos, under a billboard reading #EndPoliceBrutality with raised fists, a yellow sun overhead.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Of all the Made in Lagos scenes, this one carries the most weight. Anth Ezeokoye honours the Lekki toll gate during EndSARS as a moment of …

Yoruba

Lekki Tollgate, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Pen-and-ink drawing of a rhinoceros suspended in the air by about twenty thin threads, each held by a tiny winged insect, on a pale coffee-stained background.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

About twenty insects, each on its own thread, lift a rhinoceros that seems entirely at peace with the arrangement. Anth Ezeokoye's pen draw…

Igbo

Teamwork

Yr. 2020

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Mixed-media artwork of a muscular man drawn in charcoal, wearing a waist cloth and a geometric orange and grey mask, with floating patterned red-orange forms on a peach wavy-line background.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

St. Clvtch gives the warrior spirit within him an ancestral face: a Benin-inspired mask honouring his Edo roots, worn over a body in heavy …

Edo/Benin

Warrior Within

Yr. 2022

Joshua AdegboyeJoshua A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Find a work, an artist, a tradition

Shindara

The Dance

Vignette

Somebody

Missus

Camouflage

Black and Gold

Notice Me

In Silk

Lekki Tollgate, Lagos

Teamwork

Warrior Within