Prince Twins Seven-Seven; Nigerian 1944 - 2011; Noah'S Ark
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Notes : 'As one of the young men encouraged and instructed in the Mbari Mbayo workshops that Ulli Beier organised and Georgina Beier conducted, Prince began as an artist of the Osogbo School. He was, some say, the most talented, and he was, all agree, the most distinct. His style, his alone from the beginning, matured swiftly, sharpening as he mastered new media, from pen and ink to etching and painting, until in 1969 he invented laminated paintings on wood, a technique that he called sculpture's paintings and developed to separate himself from his imitators. In the 1970s, by the time he was thirty, he had become a lone actor: a popular musician and an acknowledged star of African art. He had seen London and New York. He had been featured in Ulli Beier's Contemporary Art in Africa. African Arts had published two papers about him, one descriptive by the Mundy-Castles, one analytic by Robert Plant Armstrong, and soon Bob Armstrong would praise Prince as the modern master of the Yoruba tradition in Wellspring, the middle volume of his great trilogy on art.' Henri Glassie (2011) Prince Twins Seven-Seven: In Memoriam, online, https://materialculture.com/prince-twins-seven-seven-in-memoriam/, accessed 11 January 2024. This lot has been selected by Curatorial Voice: Nkgopoleng Moloi.
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