Month: January 1963
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Mentioned in ‘Primitive Art’
‘Primitive Art’ by Leonhard Adam, 1963 As a sculptor, the African has little or nothing to learn from the European. Pl. 40a shows a modern sculpture in iroko wood by B. C. Enwonwu, then a twenty-year-old student of Onitsha and Government College, Umuahia (Nigeria), who was described as the most sophisticated of the five artists
About
Felix Idubor (1928–1991) was a Nigerian sculptor from Benin City, a city with a rich history of artistic excellence. He was part of a young group of artists in the 1950s and 1960s who raised awareness of the artistic consciousness of African tradition in an emerging and nascent social milieu. He is sometimes considered one of the pioneers of Nigerian contemporary art. In 1966, he opened Nigeria’s first contemporary art gallery in Kakawa street, Lagos.
Adulee Moore (1) American collectors (2) British Council (2) British Royal Collection (7) Central Bank – Lagos (1) Central Bank of Benin – Benin City (1) Cocoa House – Ibaden (1) Commonwealth Exhibition – Edinburgh (1) Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery (1) Congress of African Culture – Salisbury now Harare Zimbabwe (1) DR and Mrs Jerry Wulk (1) European collectors (1) Exhibition Centre – Lagos (1) Governor General of Nigeria (2) House of Parliament – Lagos (2) Iaga Idungan (1) Independence Building – Lagos (3) International Meteorlogical Organization – London (1) International Telecommunications Building – Geneva (1) Munich University Institute of Art (1) Municipal Library – Lagos (1) National Gallery of Modern Art – Lagos (1) National Theatre – Lagos (1) Nigeria Exhibition Center (1) Nigeria House – London (2) Nigerian Electrical Power Authority boardroom (1) Nigerian Observer (1) Osagie Osifo – brother (2) Palace of the Oba of Lagos (2) Residence of the British High Commissioner – Lagos (1) Senate Building Lagos (1) State House – Benin City (1) The Cooperative Bank – Ibadan (5) The German-Africa Society (1) The Idubor Gallery of Art (1) The Imperial Institute (9) The National Hall – Lagos (4) UNESCO (7) United States Information Service (2) University of Benin Teaching Hospital (1) University of Lagos (1)