She does not wait for the weather. She is the weather.
On enquiry
The Black Widow
She is two selves now. The woman she was, and the woman who remains.
Acquired
Abraham & Isaac
The hand stays raised. The angel has already arrived. The inheritance is the moment between.
On enquiry
Black Panther
The body that refuses to be tamed. The black that was never decoration.
On enquiry
The Three Yoruba Brothers
Three brothers. One inheritance. The light arranges itself around them like a verdict.
Acquired
Red Man
He has seen the whole city. Now the city looks back at him.
$4,990
Tòlání
A woman adorned in Aṣò ẹbí. In the folds of her Gele, a calm, assured regality.
Acquired
Halimat
The daughter of the middle. The one who fights to be seen. Her gaze always outwards.
$1,255
Ada
The first daughter. The one who shoulders the weight, but whose tears won't show.
$970
Àríkè
The last daughter. She shines and glows, stepping in the footsteps of her sisters, her head held high.
$1,683
The Complete Auntys
Ada. Halimat. Àríkè. All three sisters, together.
$3,906
The Last Dance
The music has not stopped. She has simply heard the silence underneath it.
$126
The Red Man
His first breakthrough. The painting that left the studio and became the world's.
Acquired
Yasuke
The African samurai. The image the world now uses. Anthony painted it first.
Acquired
Mami Wata
Queen of the rivers. Mother of the deep. She has every gift, and she keeps the price.
$784
Oriana
She arrived with flowers and weather in her hair, and the room rearranged itself.
$927
Mama Gold
She built the market and the market built the city. The cigar is hers. So is the last word.
$421
Goldie
Everyone in the room is looking. She decided that a long time ago.
$421
The Traveller
One eye for the road ahead, one for the road behind. He has walked both.
$421
Cleopatra
History painted her pale. The painting gives her back her face, and her cat.
$343
Ayra Starr
A whole generation looked up at once. She was the thing they were looking at.
$343
Stardust
She is made of the same thing as the sky. When she goes, she goes back into it.
$343
Morningstar
Before he fell, he was the brightest. The fire remembers him. So does the dark.
$172
Tutu
Enwonwu painted her, and the nation saw itself. Here she is again.
$136
Catalogue
To scale
Storm
Medium
Mixed media on canvas
Size
36 × 48 in
Year
2024
Edition
Original · 1 of 1
Signature mark
Water that returns. The body that calls the sky down.
Provenance
Studio of Anthony Azekwoh · Lagos · 2024
From the Studio
Studio print by Anthony Azekwoh.
~Λnthony
Details
A portrait of a woman the way a coastline is a portrait of the sea. The light arrives wet. The hair moves before the wind does. She is not summoning the rain. The rain is following her home. Painted in the long Lagos season when the harmattan finally breaks.
