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Twins Seven-Seven, (b. Nigeria, 1944 - 2011) Mixed media on layered plywood 239cm x 120cm (94.1 x
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Twins Seven-Seven, (b. Nigeria, 1944 - 2011) Mixed media on layered plywood 239cm x 120cm (94.1 x 47.2in)
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One of Nigeria`s most celebrated visual artists Prince Twins Seven-Seven was born `Taiwo Polanyi Oyewale-Toyeje Oyelale Osuntoki` in 1944 in Nigeria and died in Ibadan in 2011. The sole survivor of seven successive sets of twins, he renamed himself Ibeji Meje-Meje, or "Twins Seven-Seven” and as a member of a royal lineage of the Yoruba people he took the title of Prince.
Twins Seven-Seven had worked as an itinerant singer and dancer before he walked into one of the Mbari Mbayo art workshops led by Georgina and Ulli Beier in Oshogbo in 1964. He took to painting immediately, and became one of the stars of the Oshogbo school. While a modernist in style, he took as his primary subject the rich religious and historical traditions and mythology of his Yoruba ethnic group.
The Hunter is a particularly fine example of the artist`s work from the late 1980`s. Bought by its current owner from Twins Seven-Seven`s show at The Italian Embassy in Lagos in 1988. In 2005 Twins Seven-Seven was awarded UNESCO Artist for Peace. He achieved international fame, exhibiting at major museums across the world including the Pompidou Centre and the Musée de L`Homme in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Museum of African Art in Washington, the Houston Contemporary Art Museum and the National Museum of Art in Lagos, Nigeria.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.Exhibited: Museum Rade near Hamburg, The Masters of Nigerian Contemporary Art, October 2008 - January 2009 Lagos, Italian Embassy, Exhibition of Twins Seven-Seven`s work, 1988
Literature:
Rolf Brockmann and Gerd Hötters, Szene Lagos, Reise in eine afrikanische Kulturmetropole, (Munich 1994) p.180 Acquired direct from the artist Private collection of Rolf Crüsemann-Brockmann, Lübeck, Germany. Click here to view Catalogue
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Twins Seven-Seven, (b. Nigeria, 1944 - 2011) Mixed media on layered plywood 239cm x 120cm (94.1 x 47.2in)
Framed
One of Nigeria`s most celebrated visual artists Prince Twins Seven-Seven was born `Taiwo Polanyi Oyewale-Toyeje Oyelale Osuntoki` in 1944 in Nigeria and died in Ibadan in 2011. The sole survivor of seven successive sets of twins, he renamed himself Ibeji Meje-Meje, or "Twins Seven-Seven” and as a member of a royal lineage of the Yoruba people he took the title of Prince.
Twins Seven-Seven had worked as an itinerant singer and dancer before he walked into one of the Mbari Mbayo art workshops led by Georgina and Ulli Beier in Oshogbo in 1964. He took to painting immediately, and became one of the stars of the Oshogbo school. While a modernist in style, he took as his primary subject the rich religious and historical traditions and mythology of his Yoruba ethnic group.
The Hunter is a particularly fine example of the artist`s work from the late 1980`s. Bought by its current owner from Twins Seven-Seven`s show at The Italian Embassy in Lagos in 1988. In 2005 Twins Seven-Seven was awarded UNESCO Artist for Peace. He achieved international fame, exhibiting at major museums across the world including the Pompidou Centre and the Musée de L`Homme in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Museum of African Art in Washington, the Houston Contemporary Art Museum and the National Museum of Art in Lagos, Nigeria.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.Exhibited: Museum Rade near Hamburg, The Masters of Nigerian Contemporary Art, October 2008 - January 2009 Lagos, Italian Embassy, Exhibition of Twins Seven-Seven`s work, 1988
Literature:
Rolf Brockmann and Gerd Hötters, Szene Lagos, Reise in eine afrikanische Kulturmetropole, (Munich 1994) p.180 Acquired direct from the artist Private collection of Rolf Crüsemann-Brockmann, Lübeck, Germany. Click here to view Catalogue
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Specialist in charge: Ed Cross
To contact Ed Cross directly, email: ed@edcrossfineart.com
To contact The Auction Room, email Georgia Spray: georgia.spray@theauctionroom.com, +44 (0) 20 7499 4406
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For all pre-sale and post-sale enquiries and to request a shipping quotation, please contact Connoisseur International, telephone: +44 (0)20 8572 2955, or email: connoisseur@theauctionroom.com
Absentee Bidding Now Open - Please register to bid
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