LYNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE | Rewards

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

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Description

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
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signed, titled and dated 2004 on the reverse
oil on canvas
101 by 81 cm. 39 3/4 by 31 7/8 in.

Provenance

Rudolf Steiner House, London, Charity Auction: Tsunami Victims, 2005 (donated by the artist)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Catalogue Note

“I could deny everything that I chose to do, deny everything that I’m interested in for the sake of being an everyman, but I’m not an everyman. I’m a black woman. I can’t do anything about that, but I don’t feel like there’s a war I’m trying to depict or comment on. This isn’t about hatred or love in any particular- it’s about all of those things, a life lived through my eyes” (Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in conversation with Naomi Beckwith, in: Naomi Beckwith, Donatien Grau and Jennifer Higgie, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Munich 2014, p. 111).