Archive
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Mentions in ‘Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace’
Reading the Contemporary : African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, 1999 …Admittedly, there was a time, around 1960, when the greater part of available patronage was expatriate. Some artists preferred to keep their paintings themselves rather than sell them to expatriate collectors, who were likely to take them out of the country, but this
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Mentions in ‘African Art: The Years since 1920’
African Art: The Years since 1920 by Marshall W. Mount, 1989
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Pictured in the ‘New Dimensions in Music: Investigating Music’ school songbook
New Dimensions in Music: Investigating music, 1980 AFRICAN ART The African artist Felix Idubor and his assistants complete a bas-relief sculpture decorating the Lagos Independence House in Lagos, Nigeria. The bas-relief depicts the three main peoples of Nigeria, the Yoruba People, the Ibo People, and the Hausa People. African art has influenced much art in
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Mentioned in Times article ‘African culture asserted after struggle’
The Times, July 22, 1976 In 1960, only Nigerian novels had been published Cyprian Ekwensi’s People of the City (1954) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958). Ben Enwonwu and Felix Idubor were the only Nigerian artists with even a national reputation. The plays of Wole Soyinka were known only to cognoscenti, while the one
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The Arts in the New Africa
[Felix Idubor’s “cement sculptures” mentionied in what was seen at the time as a seminal article on African arts by the British artist Gerald Moore.] By Gerald Moore African Affairs Vol. 66, No. 263 (Apr., 1967), pp. 140-148 (9 pages) – incomplete scan THE ARTS IN THE NEW AFRICA by GERALD MOORE, University of Sussex
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Sculpture change
The Scotsman – Monday 30 August 1965 SCULPTURE CHANGE The works of Felix Idubor, the sculptor, are not now to be shown at Glasgow’s Museum and Art Galleries on September 20 as part of the Commonwealth Arts Festival. The Nigerian sculptor, Ben Osawe, will present his works instead. Four painters taking part in the exhibition
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Mentioned in review of Commonwealth Exhibition in Edinburgh
The Scotsman – Saturday 16 March 1963 WOOD CARVING Some of the best work here is as you might expect, in wood carving, and I would draw attention particularly to a charming little figure of a seated boy by Felix Idubor a self-taught artist of natural gifts who was born in Benin (the great Benin
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)