Search: 84 results found for "Limited Edition African art"

Curator's Note

Ai_mayor reduces the person to a black outline, eyes closed, and still makes it the calmest thing in the frame. Flowers, stripes and a purp…

Yoruba

Stainless

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Square black-and-white illustration of two mirrored profiles facing outward, heavy brows and hatched marks under the eyes, large roundels above and a black diamond at the centre.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Janus 2 moves in close: two heavy-browed profiles fill the square, a hatched teardrop beneath each eye, a black diamond hanging where they …

Hausa

Janus 2

Ibrahim Buhari GamboIbrahim B. G.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration of two cat-headed Egyptian goddesses in white gowns holding hands: a cheetah-headed figure raising a tray with a bleeding heart, and a grey cat-headed figure holding a gold sistrum.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Two feline goddesses walk hand in hand: Mafdet, cheetah-headed, holding up a bleeding heart, and Bastet, grey and cat-headed, raising her s…

Inspired by Ancient Egypt

Mafdet-Bastet

Sandro PerovicSandro P.

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.

Photograph of a person in a pearl-studded crown and dark flared robe, looking over the shoulder with light-catching eyes, backlit in yellow-gold light, blue-white smoke rising around the robe.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Omotayo Tajudeen lights his sitter from behind until the gold seems to come from the figure itself. The crown is beaded, the robe sweeps ou…

Yoruba

Idan

Yr. 2022

Omotayo TajudeenOmotayo T.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Digital fashion illustration of three women in wide hats: at centre a figure in a yellow wing-panelled jacket and pleated skirt, flanked by one in black and silver and one in lavender.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

A butterfly's beauty is half the story; the rest is the change it took. Ekundayo dresses three women for the moment of emerging, the one at…

Yoruba

Butterflies

Yr. 2022

Adeyemo EkundayoAdeyemo E.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

White calligraphy on black of the Serenity Prayer, opening 'Dear God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change', framed by tropical leaves and flowers.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Courage in the letterforms, serenity in the leaves, wisdom in the balance between them. Anth Ezeokoye sets Niebuhr's prayer in bold white o…

Undeclared

Serenity

Yr. 2022

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration of an angular orange mask-like face with heavy-lidded eyes glancing sideways, scalloped pattern on the cheeks, blue planes under brow and chin, before two overlapping pale suns.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

There is a moment when something long known becomes clear. Mikenobi gives it a carved face, in the spirit of the Igbo carvings that give fo…

Igbo

Introspection

Yr. 2023

Michael C. EkenobiMichael C. E.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Painting of three musicians on purple: one in a green robe and turban with a gourd lute, one in a blue robe with a fiddle and bow, one in a red cap and black-and-gold top playing a flute.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Where ethnic sentiment is used to divide, Clement Obioha paints Nigeria's three largest peoples as one band: three instruments, three voice…

Igbo

Unity

Yr. 2018

Chibuike Clement ObiohaChibuike C. O.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Painting of a woman in pink and purple tones with two afro puffs and a dark strapless top, glancing sideways beside a bright window against an orange wall.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Clement's feminist is a woman who builds the life of her dreams, carries a man's load and keeps a woman's kindness. He paints that double s…

Igbo

Feminist

Yr. 2024

Chibuike Clement ObiohaChibuike C. O.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Low-angle photograph of chess pieces on a rose and maroon board: a black pawn, a white pawn and a black rook in focus, blurred pieces in front, dark background.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Fortune shoots from board level and lets the near pieces dissolve. Out of the blur stands one white pawn, flanked by a black pawn and a bla…

Igbo

The Meeting

Fortune EzeFortune E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black-and-white illustration of a pregnant woman with eyes closed, one arm raised to balance a tall patterned vessel on her head, large flowers and a small bird beside her, on a black ground.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Yeko calls her son her Sun, and this is a picture of carrying one. A pregnant woman balances a tall patterned vessel on her head, eyes clos…

Ugandan

Under My Sun

Marjory Yeko JewittMarjory Y. J.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Find a work, an artist, a tradition

Stainless

Janus 2

Mafdet-Bastet

Warrior Within

Idan

Butterflies

Serenity

Introspection

Unity

Feminist

The Meeting

Under My Sun