Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 3, 2023 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Roberts Projects, Los Angeles
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Literature

    Ayla Angelos, 'Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe hopes his audience will understand and – most importantly – enjoy his portraiture', It's Nice That, 9 July 2020, online (illustrated)
    Arnesia Young, 'Ghanaian Artist Explores Being Black in America Through Colorful Portraits', My Modern Met, 10 May 2021, online (illustrated)

  • 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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108

Dapper II

signed and dated 'KWAME KYE MAR. 2020' on the reverse
oil on canvas
213.4 x 137.2 cm (84 x 54 in.)
Painted in 2020.

Estimate
£30,000 - 50,000 

Sold for £50,800

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 3 March 2023