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Ablade Glover (Ghanaian, born 1934) Carnival (framed) image 1
Ablade Glover (Ghanaian, born 1934) Carnival (framed) image 2
Ablade Glover (Ghanaian, born 1934) Carnival (framed) image 3
Lot 26

Ablade Glover
(Ghanaian, born 1934)
Carnival (framed)

22 March 2023, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£7,000 - £10,000

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Ablade Glover (Ghanaian, born 1934)

Carnival
signed and dated 'Glo/18' (lower right)
oil on canvas
150.7 x 151.7cm (59 5/16 x 59 3/4in).
(framed)

Footnotes

With a successful career not only in his home country of Ghana, but also Britain and the United States, Ablade Glover has achieved both national and international recognition and acclaim as an artist and educator. The artist's distinctive technical use of bright and often primary colours applied with thick impasto stokes of either paint brush or palette knife, create impactful and energetic works such as the present lot. Simultaneously, while there is a great emphasis on texture in the artist's work, Glover's work also possesses an ability to render reality. This trompe-l'œil effect enables the present lot to be appreciated from multiple observation points, allowing dimension to the perspective in which we can appreciate the artist's work.

Bibliography
Gerard Houghton, Ablade Glover: Selected Works, Celebrating the artist's 75th year, (London: October Gallery, 2009)

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