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Uche Okeke and Igbo

Three Mallams and the Moon

1961

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Three Mallams and the Moon

1961

Physical Qualities Pen and black ink on paper, Image/Sheet: 190.5 × 139.5 mm. (7 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.) Mount: 296 × 214 mm. (11 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line The Amy Gould/Matthew Polk Fund
Object Number 2021.208
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-left within image in black ink "C. Uche Okeke / 1962" VERSO: center in graphite "3" [encircled]; lower-center in graphite "613" [encircled in graphite and crossed out in blue ink]; lower-center in blue ink "Oja Suite I"; lower-center right in black ink "Three Mallams and the Moon"; lower-center in graphite "The Trio / 19.1 x 13.9 cm"

Artist

Uche Okeke

1932–2015

Nigerian, 1933-2016
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Culture

Igbo

2000–2000

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