Helene Love-Allotey
Head of Sale
Lot 95
Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe
(Ghanaian, born 1990)
Bold and Vibrant
8 October 2020, 17:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£7,000 - £10,000
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Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe (Ghanaian, born 1990)
Bold and Vibrant
signed 'Kwame Kye" (lower right); signed, inscribed and dated 2017 (verso)
acrylic on canvas
95 x 125cm (37 3/8 x 49 3/16in).
signed 'Kwame Kye" (lower right); signed, inscribed and dated 2017 (verso)
acrylic on canvas
95 x 125cm (37 3/8 x 49 3/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Acquired from the Artist's Alliance Gallery, Accra;
A private collection.
The artist attended the Ghanatta College of Art and Design for Fine Art in Accra and now lives and works in Portland, Oregon. He held his first exhibition in the USA "Black Like Me" at Roberts Projects Gallery, Los Angeles in January 2020.
"Color means a great deal where I come from. It's a distinguishing quality - the very means of self-expression".
Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe