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This is the rating and price for Plant Form From Uli Grove, Factories And Houses by Christopher Uchefuna Okeke

Plant Form From Uli Grove, Factories And Houses
Christopher Uchefuna Okeke (1933-2016)
About the lot N° 65
Plant Form From Uli Grove, Factories And Houses ,1989
Medium: Plant Form from Uli Grove Price: 10 444.57 USD It's free to register now to view!
Estimate (low-high) : 4000 GBP-6000 GBP It's free to register now to view!
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Sale Title : Modern & Contemporary African Art | and CCA Lagos Benefit Auction | Visit sothebys.com to bid It's free to register now to view!
Sale date : 22 Mar 2022 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

Provenance :
Notes : We must fight to free ourselves from mirroring foreign culture. This great work demands willpower, originality, and above all, love of our fatherland. We must have our own school of art independent of European and Oriental Schools, but drawing as much as possible from what we consider in our judgement to be the cream of these influences, and wedding them to our native art culture. (Uche Okeke, Art in Development, 1959) For Uche Okeke, the growth of contemporary art in his home country of Nigeria was irrevocably tied to the country’s greater prosperity, the artist was a staunch advocate for the role of the arts in the development of a nation. Born in Northern Nigeria in 1933, Okeke’s practice was deeply influenced by his Igbo culture, particularly by the folklore shared with him by his mother and sister, as well as by Uli, an aesthetic tradition from south-eastern Nigeria focusing on the Igbo female form. The artist learned this technique from his mother who was a celebrated Uli draughtswoman. Okeke would later become the father of the revival of Uli technique in contemporary Nigerian art. His time as a professor at the University of Nigeria would be a tenure branded by the rise of the Uli Revivalist Movement. Developing in the wake of the Nigerian Civil war, members sought to achieve a radical reassertion of Igbo ethnicity.
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