The body that refuses to be tamed. The black that was never decoration.
Acquired
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.
Acquired
Storm
She does not wait for the weather. She is the weather.
Acquired
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.
Acquired
The Graduate
On enquiry
The Wedding Day
On enquiry
The Last Dance
On enquiry
Cinderella
On enquiry
Father Time
On enquiry
Sara
On enquiry
The Fishermen
On enquiry
The Intermission
The pause between the ceremony and the feast. The air, held.
On enquiry
Lagos Man
His crowned death beside him, his living heart held in the open. He carries it himself.
On enquiry
New Money
No gold, no chieftaincy, no one else in the frame. The bleeding is his own.
On enquiry
Old Money
The cap is a title. The gold is a receipt. Somebody paid for all of this.
On enquiry
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.
₦1,254,300
Ada
The first daughter. The one who shoulders the weight, but whose tears won't show.
₦969,200
Àríkè
The last daughter. She shines and glows, stepping in the footsteps of her sisters, her head held high.
₦1,681,900
The Complete Auntys
Ada. Halimat. Àríkè. All three sisters, together.
₦3,905,300
The Last Dance
The music has not stopped. She has simply heard the silence underneath it.
₦125,500
The Red Man
His first breakthrough. The painting that left the studio and became the world's.
Acquired
Catalogue
To scale
Black Panther
Medium
Mixed media on canvas
Size
38 × 50 in
Year
2024
Edition
Original · 1 of 1
Signature mark
Sight without permission. The animal that watches first.
Provenance
Studio of Anthony Azekwoh · Lagos · 2024
From the Studio
Studio print by Anthony Azekwoh.
~Λnthony
Details
Not the Marvel emblem. An older animal. The panther here is political before it is mythological, the body that walks the long border between captured and free. Anthony paints the muscle slow, the eye slower. The viewer is the one being studied.
