Demas Nwoko (Nigerian, Born 1935) ‘Adam And Eve’ Signed An
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1962-01-01 | The current lot was sold at the 1962 Galerie Lambert exhibition in Paris
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- Galerie Lambert, Paris, May 1962
- The collection of Dennis Duerden (1927-2006)
- A private collection, UK
- In 1962, following a period of study at the College of Arts, Science and Technology in Zaria, Nwoko received a scholarship from the Congress of Cultural Freedom for a year’s study at the Centre Français du Théâtre in Paris
- It was in Paris that he produced his seminal series Adam and Eve
- These paintings ostensibly depict the first couple, but also demonstrate the principal of ife kwulu ife akwudebe ya (when something stands, something else stands beside it)
- The series is characterised by this fusion of Igbo culture with Western images
- Five of these paintings were sent for exhibition at the First Festival of Negro Arts at Dakar in 1966, where they were lost and never returned
- Another is held in the collection of the artist (illustrated Okeke- Agulu p.199)
- Dennis Duerden was assistant curator at the Jos Museum, Nigeria, in the late 1950s
- On his return to Britain, he was made director of the Hausa service of the BBC World Service
- The author of a number of publications, including African Art (1968) and The Invisible Present (1972), Duerden played a key role in establishing international reputations for African artists, writers and musicians
- Okeke-Agulu, Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria, (Durham, 2015). ‘Adam and Eve’, 1962, the collection of the artist
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