Uzo Egonu Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Uzo Egonu Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 12, 2023
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) A New Lease of Life (Third) (framed)
Est: £20,000 - £30,000
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) A New Lease of Life (Third) signed and dated 'UZO Egonu 89' (lower left)/ titled 'A new lease of life (Third) Oil 1989'; further bears the label 'Uzo Egonu/ 019' (to the stretcher bar, verso) oil on canvas 135 x 200cm (53 1/8 x 78 3/4in). (framed)
Bonhams
Mar. 22, 2022
Stateless People (E)
Est: £15,000 - £20,000
Uzo Egonu Nigerian 1931-1996 Stateless People (E) signed and dated 1981 (lower left); label bearing the title (on the reverse) oil on canvas 173 by 119cm., 68 by 47in. framed: 177 by 124cm., 69 3/4 by 48 3/4in.
Sotheby's
Mar. 22, 2022
Women Gathering
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
Uzo Egonu Nigerian 1931-1996 Women Gathering signed and dated 1962 (lower right) oil on canvas 91.5 by 167.5cm., 36 by 66in. framed: 92 by 169cm., 36¼ by 66½in.
Sotheby's
Mar. 09, 2022
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) Still Life
Est: £25,000 - £35,000
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) Still Life signed and dated 'Uzo Egonu 80' (lower left) oil on linen 144.5 x 107cm (56 7/8 x 42 1/8in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Mar. 09, 2022
Uzo Egonu, Nigerian/British 1931-1996 - Untitled (Gandi), 1972;
Est: £800 - £1,200
Uzo Egonu, Nigerian/British 1931-1996- Untitled (Gandi), 1972; screenrpint in colours on J. Barcham Green Crisbrook wove, signed, dated and inscribed A/P in pencil; together with three further screenprints by the same hand, each unsigned proofs, largest sheet 80 x 59.7cm (unframed) (4) (ARR) Please refer to department for condition report
Roseberys
Mar. 09, 2022
Uzo Egonu, Nigerian/British 1931-1996 - Feast Day at the King's Palace, 1970;
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
Uzo Egonu, Nigerian/British 1931-1996- Feast Day at the King's Palace, 1970; screenprint in colours on J. Barcham Green Crisbrook wove, signed, dated and inscribed A/P in pencil; together with two further screenprints by the same hand, each signed, dated 1972 and inscribed A/P in pencil, each sheet 79.7 x 58.5cm (unframed) (3) (ARR) Please refer to department for condition report
Roseberys
Mar. 09, 2022
Uzo Egonu, Nigerian/British 1931-1996 - Untitled (cards), 1970;
Est: £300 - £500
Uzo Egonu, Nigerian/British 1931-1996- Untitled (cards), 1970; lithograph in colours on J. Barcham Green Crisbrook wove, signed, dated and inscribed A/P in pencil, sheet 78.6 x 59cm (unframed) (ARR) Please refer to department for condition report
Roseberys
Nov. 29, 2021
UZO EGONU (1931-1996) LONE EATER
Est: $4,500 - $6,000
1979 Print, Edition 19 0f 50 50 x 71 cm. (19⅝ x 28 in.) Signed and dated (lower right)
Arthouse Contemporary
Oct. 20, 2021
Nude Woman Combing Her Hair
Est: £7,000 - £9,000
Uzo Egonu Nigerian 1931-1996 Nude Woman Combing Her Hair signed (upper right); titled (on label affixed to the reverse) oil on board 91.5 by 71cm., 36 by 28in. Framed: 93 by 72.5cm., 36½ by 28½in.
Sotheby's
Oct. 12, 2021
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) Dancers
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) Dancers signed and dated 'Egonu/ 64' (upper right); inscribed with title on the artist's label (verso) oil on board 122 x 91cm (48 1/16 x 35 13/16in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Mar. 31, 2021
Westminster Abbey
Est: £10,000 - £12,000
Uzo Egonu Nigerian 1931-1996 Westminster Abbey signed and dated 1966 (lower left) oil on canvas 71 by 91.5cm., 28 by 36in. Framed: 92 by 135cm., 36 by 53in.
Sotheby's
Sep. 02, 2020
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) Man with a glass of beer
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) Man with a glass of beer signed and dated 'Uzo Egonu 79' (upper right) oil on canvas 152 x 124cm (59 13/16 x 48 13/16in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Jun. 15, 2020
UZO EGONU, SACRIFICIAL COCKS
Est: $2,640 - $3,950
₦ 1,000,000-1,500,000 $2,640-3,950 UZO EGONU (1931-1996), SACRIFICIAL COCKS, 1974, Linoprint, 51 x 73.5 cm. (20 x 29 in.) Signed and dated (lower right).
Arthouse Contemporary
Mar. 18, 2020
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) Woman with a glass of wine
Est: £20,000 - £30,000
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) Woman with a glass of wine signed and dated 'Uzo Egonu/ 79' (lower right) oil on canvas 150.5 x 122.5cm (59 1/4 x 48 1/4in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
May. 02, 2019
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) Poetess
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) Poetess signed and dated 'Uzo Egonu/ 80' (upper left)oil on canvas 150.5 x 122.5cm (59 1/4 x 48 1/4in). Provenance: Collection of the artist.A private collection.LiteratureO. Oguibe, Uzo Egonu: An African Artist in the West, (London, 1995), illustrated p.83The above lot belongs to the artist's Stateless People series, begun in 1980. This was a time of great anxiety and frustration for Egonu. Now partially blind, he was finding it increasingly difficult to paint. His hopes and expectations for Nigeria following the end of the civil war had also come to nothing. The wealth generated by the oil boom in the 1970s was channeled into hyper-consumption rather than developing the infrastructure. By 1983, socioeconomic conditions were so dismal that Chinua Achebe complained the country was in a state of crisis:"Corruption in Nigeria has passed the alarming and entered the fatal stage; and Nigeria will die if we keep pretending that she is only slightly indisposed." (Achebe, The Trouble with Nigeria, Enugu, 1983. p.38)His country and body in a state of decline, Egonu began to question his identity and the concept of nationhood. His reflections gave birth to Stateless People (1980-82). The series' unifying motif is the human figure bent over, consumed by shame, sorrow and regret. Each painting depicts a figure engaged in an activity close to Egonu's heart: a musician, an artist, a writer, a poet. The final work in the series, Stateless People: An Assembly, brings the characters together in a single composition.When the works were first exhibited at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 1986, Egonu made the following statement:"It is always assumed that 'Stateless People' are people who, through the consequence of their political activities (in opposition to the establishment) or who suffer victimisation due to their religious conviction in their original countries, either escaped or were forced out by their authoritarian regime. In this case, people who belong to this category cannot go back to their countries, and consequently end up without nationality.My stateless people are far from being political or religious refugees. They are people who are symbolically stateless. How can a person who has a country and lives there...be regarded as a stateless person? If a country exists just in name without a permanent foundation, foresight, commonsense and ambition for the good of the country, in other words dwells in chaos and stagnation, it is non-existent...In this modern age, it is not good enough for a country to feel that because it is not a colony of another power this fact in itself is commendable. What is commendable is what a country is trying to achieve and what it has accomplished. If symbolically a country does not exist, and if logic of existence is applied, anyone who inhabits such a country is stateless."Egonu viewed the endemic corruption in Nigeria as a breach of the state's social contract with its citizens. Symbolically, the state had collapsed. The artist found at the centre of this painting represents a generation of frustrated visionaries, alienated by the abuse of political power, but it is also a poignant self-portrait.
Bonhams
Apr. 02, 2019
UZO EGONU | Woman Reading
Est: £12,000 - £18,000
oil on canvas
Sotheby's
Apr. 02, 2019
UZO EGONU | Portrait of Mother and Child
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
oil on hardboard
Sotheby's
Apr. 02, 2019
UZO EGONU | Picadilly Circus
Est: £8,000 - £12,000
oil on canvas
Sotheby's
Mar. 20, 2019
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) Hair plaiting, 1978
Est: £12,000 - £18,000
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) Hair plaiting, 1978 signed and dated 'Uzo Egonu 78' (lower right)oil on canvas152.5 x 124cm (60 1/16 x 48 13/16in). Provenance: Collection of the artist.A private collection.LiteratureO. Oguibe, Uzo Egonu: An African Artist in the West, (London, 1995), illustrated p.73.
Bonhams
Oct. 16, 2018
UZO EGONU | Stateless People (an assembley)
Est: £12,000 - £18,000
oil on canvas
Sotheby's
Oct. 16, 2018
UZO EGONU | Four Women Bathers
Est: £8,000 - £12,000
oil on canvas
Sotheby's
Mar. 28, 2018
UZO EGONU | The Arts
Est: £12,000 - £18,000
oil on canvas
Sotheby's
Mar. 28, 2018
UZO EGONU | Women gathering
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
oil on canvas
Sotheby's
Feb. 28, 2018
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) Stateless People: an artist with beret
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
UZO EGONU (NIGERIAN, 1931-1996) Stateless People: an artist with beret signed and dated ‘Egonu/81’ (lower right); bears label inscribed ‘Stateless People (an artist with beret)’/ oil on canvas/ 1981’ (verso) oil on canvas 153 x 124cm (60 1/4 x 48 13/16in).
Bonhams
Nov. 22, 2017
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian 1931-1996)/Lone Eater, 1979/signed and dated '79 to label verso/limited edition 19/50/lithograph, 51cm x 71cm/unframed
Est: £30 - £50
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian 1931-1996)/Lone Eater, 1979/signed and dated '79 to label verso/limited edition 19/50/lithograph, 51cm x 71cm/unframed
Chorley's
Oct. 05, 2017
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) 'Palm wine tapper'
Est: £7,000 - £10,000
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) 'Palm wine tapper'
Bonhams
Oct. 05, 2017
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) 'Time does not stand still'
Est: £12,000 - £18,000
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) 'Time does not stand still'
Bonhams
May. 16, 2017
UZO EGONU | Artist painting mother and child
Est: £12,000 - £18,000
oil on canvas
Sotheby's
May. 16, 2017
UZO EGONU | Nkrumah
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
oil on canvas, unframed
Sotheby's
May. 25, 2016
UZO EGONU (NIGERIAN, 1931-1996) ‘Adoration of the Divine Ki
Est: £7,000 - £10,000
UZO EGONU (NIGERIAN, 1931-1996) ‘Adoration of the Divine King’ signed and dated ‘Egonu/ 72’ (upper left); inscribed with title (verso) oil on canvas 115 x 149.5cm (45 1/4 x 58 7/8in).
Bonhams
May. 20, 2015
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) 'Mother and Child'
Est: -
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) 'Mother and Child' (Physical Protection series)
Bonhams
May. 20, 2015
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) 'Second Poetess' o
Est: -
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) 'Second Poetess' or 'A Poetess' (Stateless People series)
Bonhams
May. 21, 2014
UZO EGONU (Nigerian, 1931-1996) African Woman
Est: -
UZO EGONU (Nigerian, 1931-1996) African Woman
Bonhams
May. 21, 2014
UZO EGONU (Nigerian, 1931-1996) 'Prophetess'
Est: £4,000 - £6,000
UZO EGONU (Nigerian, 1931-1996) 'Prophetess'
Bonhams
Mar. 22, 2012
Uzo Egonu (1931-1996) Abstract - female figures, 9.5 x 15in. unframed.
Est: £200 - £400
Uzo Egonu (1931-1996) gouache, Abstract - female figures, signed and dated '70, 9.5 x 15in. unframed.
Gorringes
Apr. 08, 2009
Uzo Egonu (Nigerian, 1931-1996) Exodus
Est: £12,000 - £18,000
Exodus signed 'Egonu' and dated '70' (upper left) oil on canvas 107 x 142.5cm (42 1/8 x 56 1/8in).
Bonhams