Category: Book extracts
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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 ‘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
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Work on cover of Foreign Service Journal
Foreign Service Journal 1961-05: Vol 38 Iss 5
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Mentions in ‘Muntu: An Outline of Neo-African Culture’
‘Muntu: An Outline of Neo-African culture by Janheinz Jahn Publication, 1961
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Mentions in ‘Art in Nigeria 1960’
“Art in Nigeria 1960” by Ulli Beier, Cambridge University Press, 1960
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Listed among men of stature in West Africa
‘Britain’s Purpose in Africa’ by Sir Kenneth Bradley, 1959
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)