Modern and Contemporary African Art
Modern and Contemporary African Art
Samuel Fosso
Le Chef: Celui a Vendu L'afrique aux Colons, Tati Series, 1997
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October 20, 02:17 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Samuel Fosso
Cameroonian
b.1962
Le Chef: Celui a Vendu L'afrique aux Colons, Tati Series, 1997
signed, titled, dated and numbered 6/12 on label bearing further information about the work in facsimile affixed to the frame verso
chromogenic print, printed 2003
47 by 47cm., 18½ by 18½in. (image); 60.5 by 50cm., 23¾ by 19¾in.(sheet)
Framed: 69.5 by 69cm., 27¼ by 27in.
Galleria Extraspazio, Rome
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Maria Francesca Bonetti & Guido Schlinkert, Samuel Fosso, 5 Continents editions, Milan, 2004, illustrated in colour p. 146-147 (another example)
John Parker, Richard Rathbone, African History: A Very Short Introduction, 22 March 2007, illustrated in black and white, p. 144 (another example)
Chris Spring, Angaza Afrika African Art Now, 2008, illustrated in colour, p. 110 (another example)
Okwui Enwezor, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Contemporary African Art Since 1980, 2009, illustrated in colour p. 196 (another example)
v.s naipaul, la masque de l’afrique, Grasset, 2011, illustrated on the front cover with detail on the back cover (another example)
Okwui Enwezor (ed.), Samuel Fosso: AUTOPORTRAIT, Steidl Verlag/The Walkther Collection, New York, 2020 (another example)
John Parker, Richard Rathbone, African History: A Very Short Introduction, 22 March 2007, illustrated in black and white, p. 144 (another example)
Chris Spring, Angaza Afrika African Art Now, 2008, illustrated in colour, p. 110 (another example)
Okwui Enwezor, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Contemporary African Art Since 1980, 2009, illustrated in colour p. 196 (another example)
v.s naipaul, la masque de l’afrique, Grasset, 2011, illustrated on the front cover with detail on the back cover (another example)
Okwui Enwezor (ed.), Samuel Fosso: AUTOPORTRAIT, Steidl Verlag/The Walkther Collection, New York, 2020 (another example)
Dusseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, Africa Remix Contemporary Art of a Continent, 24 July-7 November 2004, illustrated in colour in the catalogue p. 76 and on the cover; London, Hayward Gallery, 10 February-17 April 2005; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 24 May-15 August 2005; Tokyo, Mori Art Museum May-August 2006 (another example)