LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvasboard

Measurements:

24.02 in. (61.00 cm.) (height) by 47.64 in. (121.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed 'E.Emokpae / Struggle between life and death' (to stretcher verso)

Exhibited:

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Seven Stories about modern art in Africa, September 1995.,Malmo, Malmo Konsthall, Seven Stories about modern art in Africa, January 1996.,New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Seven Stories about modern art in Africa, June 1996

Literature:

C. Deliss, Seven Stories about modern art in Africa, (Paris/New York, 1995), illustrated p. 54.,C. Okeke-Agulu, Post-colonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria, (Durham, 2015), illustrated p.247

Provenance:

A private collection, Nigeria