Prof. Uche Okeke (Nigerian, 1933-2016) 19 Works On Paper: ((19))
Provenance : [Propriété non datée]
- Okeke spent the majority of his career in Africa, teaching until the late 1980s at the University of Nigeria at Nsukka
- The result is art that, without looking specifically ethnic, is thoroughly and consciously African in its references
- This array of works on paper date from the late 1950s, when Okeke was still at art school, right through to the mid 1970s
- The collection demonstrates the artist's versatility, including watercolor landscape sketches, fantastical ink drawings derived from folklore, and portraits that incorporate elements of ancient Nigerian Nok sculpture
- Diverse in medium, the works all display Okeke's characteristic curvilinear abstract patterns
- This aesthetic was heavily inspired by the long tradition of Igbo body painting in Southern Nigeria
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