ID 822382
Lot 159 | SAMUEL FOSSO (B. 1962)
Estimate value
£ 12 000 – 18 000
Patrice Lumumba (from African Spirits series)
gelatin silver print
image: 40 x 28 7/8in. (101.6 x 76cm.)
sheet: 45 x 32 1/8in. (114.2 x 81.6cm.)
Executed in 2008, this work is number four from an edition of five
Other works from this edition are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate, London.
Provenance
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012.
Literature
S. Njami, Samuel Fosso: Dorian Gray à Bangui, Paris 2010 (illustrated, unpaged).
O. Enwezor (ed.), Samuel Fosso AUTOPORTRAIT, Göttingen 2020 (illustrated, p. 195).
Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, 2017 (another from the edition exhibited).
Cambridge, Heong Gallery at Downing College, When The Heavens Meet The Earth, 2017, p. 105 (illustrated, p. 21).
Paris, Maison Européene de la Photographie, Samuel Fosso: The Man with a Thousand Faces, 2022 (another from the edition exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Neu-Ulm, The Walther Collection and Amsterdam, Huis Marseille.
Post Lot Text
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Applied technique: | Gelatin silver print |
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Art style: | Contemporary art |
Place of origin: | Africa |
Auction house category: | Photography |
Applied technique: | Gelatin silver print |
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Art style: | Contemporary art |
Place of origin: | Africa |
Auction house category: | Photography |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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