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Lot 141: ADEMOLA OLUGEBEFOLA (1941 - ) Emerging Spirit.

Est: $12,000 USD - $18,000 USD
Swann Auction GalleriesNew York, NY, USFebruary 06, 2007

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Description

ADEMOLA OLUGEBEFOLA (1941 - )
Emerging Spirit.

Mixed media and collage on heavy wove paper, 1970-71. 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches. Signed and dated ''69 in gouache, lower left.

Provenance: Ex-collection the artist; Thomas Matthias, Grinnell Collection; Archibald Arts, New York.

Exhibited: Black Art: Ancestral Legacy, Dallas Museum of Arts, The Virginia Museum of Fine Art, High Museum of Atlanta, traveling exhibition, 1989-1990.

Illustrated: Black Art: Ancestral Legacy, Dallas Museum of Arts, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1989, p. 209.

Ademola''s work demonstrates the experimentation in collage and Afro-centric themes in painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The artist and jazz musician has a wide influence in the Harlem art scene with his graphic and illustrative arts in addition to his painting and drawing.

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Auction Details

AFRICAN-AMERICAN FINE ART

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Swann Auction Galleries
February 06, 2007, 01:30 PM EST

104 East 25th Street, New York, NY, 10010, US