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Uzo Egonu

Westminster Abbey

Lot Closed

March 31, 02:11 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Uzo Egonu

Nigerian

1931-1996

Westminster Abbey


signed and dated 1966 (lower left)

oil on canvas

71 by 91.5cm., 28 by 36in.

Framed: 92 by 135cm., 36 by 53in.

Private Collection, Austria
Olu Oguibe, Uzo Egonu: An African Artist in the West, Seattle, 1995, p.53-4 illustrated in black and white
Olu Oguibe ‘Footprints of a Mountaineer: Uzo Egonu and the Black redefinition of modernism’ in Kwesi Owusu (ed.) Black British Culture and Society: A Text Reader, 2000, p.508-9, fig. 41.6
Olu Oguibe, The Culture Game, 2004, p.67
Molara Wood, ‘Uzo Egonu's Vision of London’, The Guardian, Lagos, 19 December 2004.