OBIORA UDECHUKWU, NIGERIAN B. 1946, CHAMELEON, 1985, Soft-ground etching, Plate: 1 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (3.2 x 18.4 cm.), Frame: 20 1/8 x 16 in. (51.1 x 40.6 cm.)
Provenienza : Purchased from the artist, 1993; Janet Stanley Collection, Washington, D.C. * Janet L. Stanley was chief librarian at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. until 2024. Over the course of her 50-year career, Janet built a personal collection of art from Africa numbering more than 450 works. One hundred works from her collection have been donated to the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.
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Literature : Illustrated in Simon Ottenberg, New Traditions from Nigeria: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press in association with the National Museum of African Art, 1997), p. 133. Illustrated in Text(ure)s of Memory: Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Obiora Udechukwu (Canton, NY: The Brush Gallery, 1998). Illustrated in So Far: Drawings, Paintings, Prints, 1963–1993 (Bayreuth: Boomerang Press, 1993), plate 77. Exhibitions: German Cultural Centre, Lagos, 1985. So Far: Drawings, Paintings, Prints, 1963-1993, Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, May 1993. The Poetics of Line: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group, National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, October 1997–April 1998. Text(ure)s of Memory: Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Obiora Udechukwu, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, October–December 1998.
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