CLAUDETTE JOHNSON (b.1959)

Lot 49
12.07.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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£ 6 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 49 | CLAUDETTE JOHNSON (b.1959)
Estimate value
£ 6 000 – 9 000
CLAUDETTE JOHNSON (b.1959)
Oil Pastel Study
signed and dated ‘Claud 2021’ (lower left)
oil pastel on paper
115/8 x 81/8in. (29.5 x 20.6cm.)
Executed in 2021

An oil pastel portrait by Claudette Johnson, ‘one of the most accomplished figurative artists working in Britain today' and a founder member of the BLK Art Group. Her art 'sets out to redress negative portrayals of black men and women and to counter the invisibility of black people in cultural spheres and beyond’ (‘Claudette Johnson: I Came to Dance’, exhibition catalogue. Oxford: Modern Art Oxford, 2019).
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