Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe - Wired: Online Auction London Thursday, May 18, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Almine Rech Editions, Brussels
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    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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signed and numbered 'Kwame Kye 59/75' lower right
archival pigment print on cotton paper
image 80 x 60 cm (31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in.)
sheet 90 x 70 cm (35 3/8 x 27 1/2 in.)

Executed in 2021, this work is number 59 from an edition of 75 plus 20 artist's proofs.

Estimate
£1,500 - 2,000 

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Wired: Online Auction

18 - 24 May 2023