Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | Phillips
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    Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe

    Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe paints empowering images of black men and women set against lush monochromatic backgrounds. His portraits of friends and family are celebrations of blackness and reclamations of lost and forgotten cultural dignity. He uses color, the primary instrument of self-expression in his native Ghana, as a language of transformation to create a dynamic of cultural, political, and personal redemption. Quaicoe was born in Accra, Ghana, where he was first introduced to painting by the expressive, highly stylized posters painted by local artists to advertise upcoming films, and attended the Ghanatta College of Art and Design for Fine Art in Accra, where he studied painting. He lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

     
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View of Yoei William

2021
Screenprint in colors with hand-coloring in acrylic, on Coventry Rag paper, the full sheet.
S. 45 1/8 x 29 3/4 in. (114.6 x 75.6 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered 32/35 in pencil, additionally signed in black ink on the accompanying Certificate of Authenticity issued by the publisher, published by Avant Arte, Amsterdam, framed.

Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for $3,810

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 22 - 24 October 2024