Modern & Contemporary African Art
Modern & Contemporary African Art
BEN ENWONWU | AFRICA DANCES
Lot Closed
October 9, 02:31 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
BEN ENWONWU
Nigerian
1917-1994
AFRICA DANCES
signed 'BE' (inner thigh)
cold-cast bronze resin
65 by 26 by 33cm., 25½ by 10¼ by 13in. (excluding base); 71 by 26 by 33cm., 28 by 10¼ by 13in. (including base)
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Private Collection, Nigeria
Prof. Sylvester O. Ogbechie, Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist, Rochester, 2008, frontispiece (another cast)
London, Mall Galleries, Royal Society of British Artists, October 1985, one of cat. nos. 51-59, titled Africa Dances (probably another cast)
Lagos, Residence of the British High Commissioner, Salon Exhibition of paintings and sculptures from 1985 London Exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists, October 1987, cat. no. 98 or 99, titled Dance Figure (probably another cast)
Washington D.C., Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Heroes: Principles of African Greatness, 16 November 2019 to present (another cast)