Contemporary Evening Auction
Contemporary Evening Auction
Property from a Distinguished Nigerian Collection
Ben Enwonwu
Chiekwe and Caro
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Property from a Distinguished Nigerian Collection
Ben Enwonwu
1917 - 1994
Chiekwe and Caro
signed Ben Enwonwu, dated 1967 and inscribed Onitsha
oil on canvas
89.2 by 68.5 cm. 35⅛ by 27 in.
Executed in 1967.
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知名尼日利亞收藏
本・恩萬武
1917 - 1994年
《卓可與卡蘿》
款識：藝術家簽名Ben Enwonwu、紀年1967並題款
油彩畫布
89.2 x 68.5 公分；35 ⅛ x 27 英寸
1967年作
Private Collection, Nigeria
Oji Onoko, 'Exit of a Grandmaster', African Concord, December 1993, p. 35
Oji Onoko, Glimpses of Our Stars: An Intimate Encounter with Leading Nigerian Artistes, 1999, p. 459
Prof. Sylvester O. Ogbechie, Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist, Rochester, 2008, p. 196
Matthew Lecznar, ‘Weathering the Storm: Ben Enwonwu’s Biafrascapes and the Crisis in the Nigerian Postcolony’, Tate Papers, no. 30, Autumn 2018, illustrated