Akinola Lasekan Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Akinola Lasekan Art Value Price Guide

Mar. 22, 2022
The Wife of High Chief Alago, Sasere of Owo
Est: £4,000 - £6,000
Akinola Lasekan Nigerian 1916-1974 The Wife of High Chief Alago, Sasere of Owo signed and dated 1966 (lower right) oil on board 61 by 48cm., 24 by 18 3/4in. framed: 67 by 54.5cm., 26 1/4 by 21 1/2in.
Sotheby's
Mar. 22, 2022
Chief Aro of Owo, the Afobaje Omolowo
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
Akinola Lasekan Nigerian 1916-1974 Chief Aro of Owo, the Afobaje Omolowo signed and dated 1965 (lower right) oil on board 153 by 91cm., 60¼ by 35¾in. framed: 157 by 95.5cm., 6¾ by 37½in.
Sotheby's
Mar. 22, 2022
The artist's mother
Est: £20,000 - £30,000
Akinola Lasekan Nigerian 1921-1972 The artist's mother signed and dated 1954 (lower right) oil on canvas 86.5 by 66cm., 34 by 26in. framed: 99 by 77cm., 39 by 30¼in.
Sotheby's
Mar. 09, 2022
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Femi
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Femi signed 'Akinola Lasekan' (lower right) oil on board 48 x 38.5cm (18 7/8 x 15 3/16in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Feb. 25, 2022
Akinola Lasekan (1921-1972), Nigerian School, Watercolour and gouache, African warriors fighting in
Est: £2,000 - £2,500
Akinola Lasekan (1921-1972), Nigerian School, Watercolour and gouache, African warriors fighting in a landscape, Lagos. Signed and dated 1944 lower left. Approx. 15 1/2" x 20"
Claydon Auctioneers
Oct. 20, 2021
Village Market
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
Akinola Lasekan Nigerian 1916-1974 Village Market signed, titled and dated 1955 (lower right) oil on canvas 40.5 by 50.5cm., 16 by 20in. Framed: 44 by 54cm., 17¼ by 21¼in.
Sotheby's
Oct. 12, 2021
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Portrait of a Yoruba Lady
Est: £8,000 - £12,000
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Portrait of a Yoruba Lady signed 'Akinola Lasekan' (lower right); bears inscription 'Onileku, Akinola Lasekan' and 'K A Player, QES' (verso) oil on board 50 x 40cm (19 11/16 x 15 3/4in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Oct. 12, 2021
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Fishermen sorting the catch
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Fishermen sorting the catch signed 'Akinola Lasekan' (lower left) watercolour 18 x 23cm (7 1/16 x 9 1/16in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Oct. 12, 2021
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Ijo-ibile
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Ijo-ibile signed and dated 'akinola lasekan 1970' (lower left) oil on canvas 61 x 75cm (24 x 29 1/2in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Mar. 17, 2021
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Ijo-ibile
Est: £20,000 - £30,000
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Ijo-ibile signed and dated 'akinola lasekan 1970' (lower left) oil on canvas 61 x 75cm (24 x 29 1/2in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Mar. 17, 2021
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) A portrait of the artist's mother
Est: £25,000 - £30,000
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) A portrait of the artist's mother signed and dated 'LASH/ 1954' (lower right) oil on canvas 87 x 66cm (34 1/4 x 26in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Oct. 08, 2020
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Portrait of a Yoruba Lady
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Portrait of a Yoruba Lady signed 'Akinola Lasekan' (lower right); bears inscription 'Onileku, Akinola Lasekan' and 'K A Player, QES' (verso) oil on board 50 x 40cm (19 11/16 x 15 3/4in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Oct. 08, 2020
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Femi
Est: £20,000 - £30,000
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Femi signed 'Akinola Lasekan' (lower right) oil on board 48 x 38.5cm (18 7/8 x 15 3/16in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Jun. 15, 2020
AKINOLA LASEKAN, PORTRAIT OF A MAN
Est: $10,530 - $15,790
₦ 4,000,000-6,000,000 $10,530-15,790 Akinola Lasekan belongs to the first generation of contemporary Nigerian artists who followed closely with the doyen, Aina Onabolu. Lasekan was an accomplished self-trained artist who practiced with his friend J. A. Akeredolu. When he and Akeredolu sojourned to study art at the Hammersmith School of Building, Arts and Crafts, it was said that they only spent six months and returned home, as in their opinion the standard was below what they had already attained. He was an illustrator, a textile designer and a painter of the ordinary human condition. He once taught at the prestigious University of Nigeria. A confident personality and one committed to training others, he ran an art correspondence programme that offered certificates of proficiency in art. It would be interesting to see how we could draw inspiration to teach art by correspondence under this pandemic. But perhaps it was his politically critical cartoons that brought his creative excellence to the fore.Some of the finest portraits Lasekan painted were of ordinary people, yet he also found time to create portraits of V.I.Ps. Interestingly, he gave them the same dignified pose and careful treatment of the costumes they wore. It seems to the artist that in the struggle for freedom, class difference matters little. Lasekan’s artistic oeuvre should be viewed holistically: a combination of politically charged cartoons that championed the political campaigns against colonialism, (especially with the newspaper The West African Pilot, founded by late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe), alongside his landscape and figure paintings, as social advocacy journals that advance the stories of both ordinary and the high society personalities together against colonial “domination”. (JB). AKINOLA LASEKAN (1916-1974), PORTRAIT OF A MAN, 1956, Oil on board, 122 x 85.4 cm. (48 x 33.5 in.) Signed and dated (lower right).
Arthouse Contemporary
Mar. 18, 2020
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Portrait of a girl wearing a headscarf
Est: £4,000 - £6,000
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Portrait of a girl wearing a headscarf signed 'LASH' (lower right); bears label inscribed 'Painted by A. Lasekan in Nigeria. Bought at his studio in a small village near Owo. W. Nigeria. 1955.' (verso) oil on canvas 39.5 x 32cm (15 9/16 x 12 5/8in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Feb. 28, 2018
* Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Yoruba drummers and dancers
Est: £4,000 - £6,000
* AKINOLA LASEKAN (NIGERIAN, 1921-1972) Yoruba drummers and dancers signed and dated ‘Akinola Lasekan/ 1970’ (lower left) oil on canvas 61 x 75cm (24 x 29 1/2in).
Bonhams
Oct. 05, 2017
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Yoruba drummers and dancers
Est: £7,000 - £10,000
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1972) Yoruba drummers and dancers
Bonhams
May. 16, 2017
AKINOLA LASEKAN | Portrait of Mrs Taiwo Andrea
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
oil on masonite board
Sotheby's
May. 16, 2017
AKINOLA LASEKAN | Fulani
Est: £6,000 - £9,000
oil and graphite on board
Sotheby's
Feb. 15, 2017
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1974) Nigerian Soldier
Est: £6,000 - £9,000
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1974) Nigerian Soldier signed and dated 'Akinola Lasekan/ 1959' (lower right) oil on board 50 x 40cm (19 11/16 x 15 3/4in). Footnotes Along with Aina Onabolu and Ben Enwonwu, Akinola Lasekan is widely acknowledged as a pioneer of modern Nigerian art. He was born into the Oladetimi family in Owo, Ondo State in 1916. Whilst his talent for the visual arts was evident from an early age, Lasekan received little formal instruction. His training consisted primarily of correspondence courses. Later in his career, he enrolled in the Hammersmith School of Art but dropped out after only two days. The difficulty Lasekan had in accessing art education in Nigeria had a profound impact, encouraging him to establish his own art correspondence course. The school was to be the training ground for a number of the nation's most celebrated artists, including Uche Okeke. Lasekan's formative years were coloured by his experience of British colonial rule. Sensitive and astute, he was very aware of the political system's failings. He sympathised with the emerging Nationalist movement and their call for political independence. He began to vent his criticisms in a series of acerbic cartoons published in The West African Pilot newspaper. His illustrations soon earned him the nickname 'Lash'. When he came to oil painting later in his career, he approached his subjects with a cartoonist's eye. His market scenes, landscapes and portraits are characterised by their keen observation and attention to detail. The present lot depicts a Nigerian soldier. Dated 1959, the painting was executed on the eve of independence. Confronted with the man's thoughtful and humane expression, the viewer cannot but be convinced of his right to self-determination. In emphasizing the soldier's rational powers over his military status, Lasekan evokes our sympathy for the Nationalist cause. Biography B.M. Kelly and J. Stanley ed., Nigerian Artists: A Who's Who and Bibliography, (London, 1993), pp.270-271. O. Offoedu-Okeke, Artists of Nigeria, (Milan, 2012), p.44-46.
Bonhams
Dec. 07, 2015
Akinola Lasekan (1916-1972), HAUSA TRADERS (AT LAGOS MARKET) 1944, Watercolour on paper; signed, titled and dated 1944 at Lagus lower right, titled “Hausa Traders” in ink in the bottom centre margin below the subject watercolour, Image/Sheet
Est: $5,000 - $10,000
AKINOLA LASEKAN (1916-1972), AFRICANHAUSA TRADERS (AT LAGOS MARKET) 1944Watercolour on paper; signed, titled and dated 1944 at Lagus lower right, titled “Hausa Traders” in ink in the bottom centre margin below the subject watercolourImage/Sheet 16.25" x 22" — 41.3 x 55.9 cm.; 18.5" x 24" — 47 x 61 cm.Literature:Tejumola Olaniyan, “Cartooning Nigerian Anticolonial Nationalism”, Images and Empires, University of California Press, 2002 Paul Stuart Landau & Deborah D. Kaspi, eds., Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, University of California Press, pgs. 15, 126-134, 330Adémúlèyá Babásèhìndé Augustine, The Impact of Pan-Africanism and Nationalism on the Evolution of Modern Art in Nigeria, ISSN 2225-059X, 2015, pg. 4Note:Akinola Lasekan is a celebrated a political cartoonist, a self-taught painter, illustrator and academic. Lasekan made strong contributions to Nigerian art and culture. A pioneer political cartoonist, Olaniyan argues that although the artist’s physiognomic representation retain a strong indigenous resonance, they were also common in the cartoons published in many British American newspapers of the 1930s and 1940s.Lasekan's artistic career flourished following the rise of Nigerian Nationalism and its thirst political independence. Augustine notes, “Lasekan's cartoons came to depict colonialism as being unjust, and that nationalism was self evident. His aesthetic appeal was tuned to realism and his cartoons sometimes delved into polemical realistic portrayals of the bloated white colonizer, the masculine nationalist and the exploited worker.”
Waddington's
May. 23, 2012
Akinola Lasekan (Nigerian, 1921-1974)
Est: £7,000 - £10,000
Portrait of a young girl signed and dated 'Akinola Lasekan / 1962' (lower right) oil on composition board 51 x 41cm (20 1/16 x 16 1/8in).
Bonhams
May. 07, 2012
AKINOLA LASEKAN (1916-1972) UNTITLED 1961 Oil on
Est: ₦1,800,000 - ₦2,000,000
AKINOLA LASEKAN (1916-1972) UNTITLED 1961 Oil on board 77.5 x 60.9 cm. (30½ x 24 in.) Signed and dated (lower left) Acquired from the estate of the artist by the present owner
Arthouse Contemporary
Nov. 21, 2011
AKINOLA LASEKAN (1916-1972) PORTRAIT OF A MAN 1956
Est: ₦3,500,000 - ₦4,000,000
AKINOLA LASEKAN (1916-1972) PORTRAIT OF A MAN 1956 Oil on board 122 x 85.4 cm. (48 x 33½ in.) Signed and dated (lower right)
Arthouse Contemporary
Nov. 21, 2011
AKINOLA LASEKAN (1916-1972) PORTRAIT OF A LADY
Est: ₦2,200,000 - ₦2,500,000
AKINOLA LASEKAN (1916-1972) PORTRAIT OF A LADY 1970 Oil on canvas 52 x 41 cm. (20½ x 16 in.) Signed and dated (lower left)
Arthouse Contemporary
Nov. 22, 2010
AKINOLA LASEKAN (1916-1972) PORTRAIT OF PA LAWANI
Est: ₦2,200,000 - ₦2,500,000
AKINOLA LASEKAN (1916-1972) PORTRAIT OF PA LAWANI OGUNYIMIKA, BRONZE CASTER , ILE IFE 1968, OIL ON CANVAS 50.8 x 40.6 cm. (20 x 16 in.)
Arthouse Contemporary