The Black Widow
The Black Widow

The Black Widow

She is two selves now. The woman she was, and the woman who remains.

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Abraham & Isaac (1)
Abraham & Isaac (2)

Abraham & Isaac

The hand stays raised. The angel has already arrived. The inheritance is the moment between.

On enquiry
Black Panther

Black Panther

The body that refuses to be tamed. The black that was never decoration.

On enquiry
Storm

Storm

She does not wait for the weather. She is the weather.

On enquiry
The Three Yoruba Brothers (1)
The Three Yoruba Brothers (2)
The Three Yoruba Brothers (3)

The Three Yoruba Brothers

Three brothers. One inheritance. The light arranges itself around them like a verdict.

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Red Man (1)
Red Man (2)

Red Man

He has seen the whole city. Now the city looks back at him.

€3.099,95
Tòlání (1)
Tòlání (2)
Tòlání (3)

Tòlání

A woman adorned in Aṣò ẹbí. In the folds of her Gele, a calm, assured regality.

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Halimat (1)
Halimat (2)

Halimat

The daughter of the middle. The one who fights to be seen. Her gaze always outwards.

€779,95
Ada (1)
Ada (2)

Ada

The first daughter. The one who shoulders the weight, but whose tears won't show.

€602,95
Àríkè (1)
Àríkè (2)
Àríkè (3)

Àríkè

The last daughter. She shines and glows, stepping in the footsteps of her sisters, her head held high.

€1.044,95
The Complete Auntys

The Complete Auntys

Ada. Halimat. Àríkè. All three sisters, together.

€2.426,95
The Last Dance (1)
The Last Dance (2)
The Last Dance (3)
The Last Dance (4)
The Last Dance (5)
The Last Dance (6)
The Last Dance (7)
The Last Dance (8)

The Last Dance

The music has not stopped. She has simply heard the silence underneath it.

€77,95
The Red Man (1)
The Red Man (2)

The Red Man

His first breakthrough. The painting that left the studio and became the world's.

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Yasuke by Anthony Azekwoh: the African samurai with two crossed katana before a red sun, in Edo-period armour.

Yasuke

The African samurai. The image the world now uses. Anthony painted it first.

Acquired
Mami Wata by Anthony Azekwoh: three dark water-spirit figures intertwined in turquoise water with gold serpentine currents and a thread of red, the West African deity of the deep.

Mami Wata

Queen of the rivers. Mother of the deep. She has every gift, and she keeps the price.

€487,95
Oriana by Anthony Azekwoh: a soft pastel portrait of a young woman with braided hair threaded with silver, a nose ring, holding a multicoloured bouquet, in lavender and white tones.

Oriana

She arrived with flowers and weather in her hair, and the room rearranged itself.

€575,95
Mama Gold (1)
Mama Gold (2)

Mama Gold

She built the market and the market built the city. The cigar is hers. So is the last word.

€261,95
Goldie (1)
Goldie (2)

Goldie

Everyone in the room is looking. She decided that a long time ago.

€261,95
The Traveller by Anthony Azekwoh: an elderly man wrapped in deep red robes and turban with one clouded eye and white marks on his face, a leather amulet at his collar, against a gold ground.

The Traveller

One eye for the road ahead, one for the road behind. He has walked both.

€261,95
Cleopatra (1)
Cleopatra (2)

Cleopatra

History painted her pale. The painting gives her back her face, and her cat.

€212,95
Ayra Starr (1)
Ayra Starr (2)

Ayra Starr

A whole generation looked up at once. She was the thing they were looking at.

€212,95
Stardust (1)
Stardust (2)

Stardust

She is made of the same thing as the sky. When she goes, she goes back into it.

€212,95
Morningstar (1)
Morningstar (2)

Morningstar

Before he fell, he was the brightest. The fire remembers him. So does the dark.

€106,95
Tutu (1)
Tutu (2)

Tutu

Enwonwu painted her, and the nation saw itself. Here she is again.

€84,95
Artist's Note
I painted her in oil, slowly, the way mourning takes time. The gold she still wears. The cross that still keeps her. She is for Yimika.

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