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Bodys Isek Kingelez

Black Tower

1999

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Bodys Isek Kingelez

Black Tower

1999

Physical Qualities Paperboard, plastic, colored paper, push pins, porous-tip pen, paint, and graphite, 28 5/8 × 10 1/8 × 14 3/16 in. (72.6 × 25.7 × 36.1 cm.)
Credit Line The Amy Gould/Matthew Polk Fund
Object Number 2023.95
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by purchase at Someday Gallery, 2023-present; Natalie Seroussi, by purchase, October 2020-June 2023; Luc Lauras, by purchase from the artist, 2000-2020.
African Wing Rotations 2024

Artist

Bodys Isek Kingelez

1947–2014

born Kimbembele-Ihunga, Belgian Congo 1948 - died Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo 2015
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