Amoako Boafo - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, October 11, 2024 | Phillips
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  • Provenance

    Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Amoako Boafo

    Amoako Boafo’s work questions contemporary misunderstandings of blackness by contrasting personal and structural perceptions and portrayals of black people. His heavily expressionistic and sensitive portraits of friends and acquaintances highlight their self-perception and beauty while challenging the misconceptions of blackness that objectify and dehumanize black people. Often depicting his sitters with animated lucidity against vibrant, monochromatic backgrounds, Boafo asks for understanding of the diversity and complexity of blackness in spite of the frequently negative representations of black people in media and culture. Though born in Accra, Ghana, he now lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

     
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Eyes on You

signed, inscribed and dated 'AMOAKO M BOAFO 2022 KING' lower right
oil on paper
100 x 75 cm (39 3/8 x 29 1/2 in.)
Painted in 2022.

Estimate
£50,000 - 70,000 

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 11 October 2024