Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, September 14, 2022 | Phillips
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    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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Rancher

2021
Archival pigment print in colours, on cotton paper, with full margins.
I. 80.2 x 60.2 cm (31 5/8 x 23 3/4 in.)
S. 90 x 70.1 cm (35 3/8 x 27 1/2 in.)

Signed and numbered 19/75 in black ink (there were also 20 artist's proofs), published by Almine Rech Editions, unframed.

Estimate
£1,500 - 2,000 

Sold for £5,670

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 14 - 15 September 2022