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SAMUEL FOSSO (B. 1962)

Lot 136
13.10.2022 16:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 136 | SAMUEL FOSSO (B. 1962)
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SAMUEL FOSSO (B. 1962)

Le Chef: Celui Qui A Vendu L’Afrique Aux Colons (The Chief who Sold Africa to the Colonists)

signed 'Samuel Fosso' (on a label affixed to the reverse)

C-print

image: 33 3/4 x 34in. (85.8 x 86.5cm.)

sheet: 39 3/8 x 39 3/8in. (100 x 100cm.)

Executed in 1997, this work is number five from an edition of eight



Another work from the edition is in the collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.





Provenance

Jean Marc Patras, Paris.

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2003).

Stevenson, Cape Town.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012.



Literature

L. Warren (ed.), Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, New York 2006, p. 550.

R. Hylton, The Nature of the Beast: Cultural Diversity and the Visual Arts Sector, Bath 2007 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

J. Parker & R. Rathbone, African History: A Very Short Introduction, London 2007 (illustrated, p. 144).

C. Spring, Angaza Afrika, London 2008 (illustrated in colour, p. 110).

B. Binder, D. Neuland-Kitzerow & K. Noack (eds.), Berliner Blätter: Ethnographische und ethnologische Beitrage, Münster 2008 (illustrated, p. 37).

O. Enwezor & C. Okeke-Agulu, Contemporary African Art Since 1980, Chicago 2009 (illustrated in colour, p. 196).

S. Njami, Samuel Fosso: Dorian Gray à Bangui, Paris 2010 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

V. S. Naipaul, Le Masque de l’Afrique, Paris 2011 (illustrated in colour on the front cover; detail illustrated in colour on the back cover).

C. Spring, African Textiles Today, London 2012 (illustrated in colour, p. 225).

V. Godeau, La Photographie Africaine Contemporaine, Paris 2015, p. 29.

O. Enwezor (ed.), Samuel Fosso: AUTOPORTRAIT, Göttingen 2020 (illustrated in colour, pp. 105 & 341).



Exhibited

Rome, Calcografia, Samuel Fosso, 2004 (another version exhibited, illustrated in colour, pp. 146-147). This exhibition later travelled to Verona, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia Scavi Scaligeri.

Dusseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, 2004-2006 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour on the front cover; illustrated in colour, p. 76). This exhibition later travelled to London, Hayward Gallery; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou and Tokyo, Mori Art Museum.





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This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Applied technique:Chromogenic colour-print
Art style:Contemporary art
Place of origin:Africa
Auction house category:Photography
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