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Lot 232

Muraina Oyelami, Nigerian b.1940 - Typical Village, 1977; gouache and pastel on paper, signed,...

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Lot 232

Muraina Oyelami, 
Nigerian b.1940 - 
Typical Village, 1977; 
gouache and pastel on paper, signed,...

Price Realised: Unsold Lot

Estimate: £1,200 - £1,800

Price realised is hammer price plus fees (30% Buyers Premium inclusive of VAT).

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Lot 232

Description

Muraina Oyelami, 
Nigerian b.1940 - 

Typical Village, 1977; 

gouache and pastel on paper, signed, titled and dated along the lower edge 'Muraina Typical Village 77', 55 x 74.5 cm 

Provenance:
Gerald Moore and thence by descent

Note: 
Gerald Moore was an important, writer, teacher and scholar of contemporary African anglophone and francophone poetry. He lived and taught in Nigeria in the 1950s and again during the 1970s, becoming friendly with writer Ulli Beier and artist Susanne Wenger. With Beier he edited the influential anthology ‘Modern Poetry from Africa’ published in 1963 and he also wrote a biography of poet Wole Soyinka in 1971. His collection also included works by Gerard Sekoto and Twins Seven Seven.

Oyelami is part of the first generation of artists to come out of the Oshogbo School of Art in the 1960s. The artist's works are in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C,  the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and the Staatlichen Kunsthalle, Berlin.


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The buyer shall pay the hammer price together with a premium thereon of 26% up to £20,000 (31.2% inclusive of VAT), 25% from £20,001 - £500,000 (30% inclusive of VAT), 20% from £500,001 thereafter (24% inclusive of VAT). The premium price is subject to VAT at the standard rate.

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