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Uche Okeke and Igbo

Monster

1961

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Monster

1961

Physical Qualities Pen and black ink on paper, 190.5 × 139.7 mm. (7 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line The Amy Gould/Matthew Polk Fund
Object Number 2021.209
African Gallery Rotations 2021

African Gallery Rotations 2022
Okeke-Agulu, Chika. Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth Century Nigeria. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015.

Okeke-Agulu, Chika. "The Art Society and the Making of Postcolonial Modernism in Nigeria," South Atlantic Quarterly 109, no. 3 (2010): 505-527.

Inscribed: RECTO: lower-right within image in black ink "C. Uche Okeke" VERSO: lower-center in black ink "D/617" [ensquared and crossed out in blue ink]; lower-center in graphite "Oja Suite "Monster" / 19.1 x 14 cm"; lower-right in blue ink "45" [encircled]

Artist

Uche Okeke

1932–2015

Nigerian, 1933-2016
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Culture

Igbo

2000–2000

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