Stardust by Anthony Azekwoh: a loosely painted portrait of an older Black woman with luminous pale eyes, wrapped in grey-blue cloth, surrounded by white eight-pointed stars.

Prints

Stardust

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

Medium

Fine art print on archival photo paper, hand-signed and numbered

Dimensions

17 × 23 in (43 × 58 cm)

Year

2024

Edition

Limited edition of 38

¥39,300

Signature mark

Stars overhead, and a map only the dead can read.

Provenance

Studio of Anthony Azekwoh · Lagos · 2024

Details

An older woman dissolving gently into light. The brushwork lets her go at the edges, the way memory does, and the stars gather around her like relatives at a bedside. Her eyes have turned to pale fire. She is not dying in this painting. She is being returned, scattered back into the material she was borrowed from.

Stardust

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

¥39,300

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.

¥14,500

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.

¥90,100

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.

¥106,500

Mama Gold

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

¥48,300

Goldie

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

¥48,300

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.

¥48,300

Cleopatra

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

¥39,300

Ayra Starr

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

¥39,300

Morningstar (1)

Morningstar (2)

Morningstar

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

¥19,700

Tutu

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

¥15,600

The Lover

He loved hard enough to age from it. He would do it again tomorrow.

¥15,600

Father Time

He is not counting the years. He is watching them pass on their way somewhere.

¥15,600

Reference

Print Sizing

Intimate

12 × 17 in

30 × 43 cm

Standard

17 × 23 in

43 × 58 cm

Grand

34 × 46 in

86 × 117 cm

Every print is hand-signed and numbered. Sizes shown above are drawn to scale relative to one another.