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AKINOLA LASEKAN (1916-1972) Portrait of Chief J.D. Akeredolu oil on board 170 x 120cm
signed and dated ‘AKINOLA LASEKAN 1957’ bottom left acquired from a collector
N1,800,000 - 2,500,000
Akinola Lasekan was born S.A Oladetimi and changed his name in 1941. He was one of Nigeria’s pioneering modern artists and one of the first to break away from salon portraiture. He was also the first West African political cartoonist and published his work from 1944 to the early 60s in the Western African Pilot. A self-taught painter, author and book illustrator, he was born in Ipelle, Ondo state. Lasekan started his career as a textile designer before becoming a book illustrator. He later established a studio and became an art teacher in1941. When he was 30, he went to study Commercial Art in England where he held a one-man exhibition in 1945. In 1962, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK. Later in his career, he taught Art at University of Ife and University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
BIBLIOGRAPHY 2008, Johannesburg, Michael Stevenson Gallery at the 1st Joburg Art Fair. Take your Road and Travel Along: The Advent of the Modern Black Painter. (13 March – 16 March 2008).
,1957
#51 CLARY NELSON-COLE (b. 1945 d.1990) U
ntitled, 2007
ink on paper 79 x 33cm
signed and dated bottom right acquired from a collector
N300,000 - 400,000
Clary Nelson-Cole was born in Waterloo, Sierra Leone, though he spent most of his career in Nigeria and the United States. He studied Art at Yaba College of Technology and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, graduating top of his painting class in 1967. Subsequently, he undertook further courses in painting and printmaking at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. From 1973 -1983, he taught at University of Wisconsin, Green Bay and from 1983 -1990 at University of Benin.
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