Sam Ntiro
Klubbat för:
13 000 SEK
Estimate
3 000 SEK
Description
SAM NTIRO (1923-1993), Vandringen, signerad, S.J.Ntiro, olja på duk uppfodrad på pannå, 40x47 cm
HISTORIA: Sam Joseph Ntiro was born near Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. He studied with Margaret Trowell at Makerere University College School of Fine Art in Kampala, Uganda 1944-47. He attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1952. By the time he won a Carnegie Scholarship to the United States in 1960 he was thought of as east Africa´s best-known painter.
While he was in New York he had a solo show at the Merton Simpson Gallery, and the Museum of Modern Art purchased one of his works for its permanent collection. Ntiro was said to be the first East African to show in New York and the first African on Madison Avenue. He also spent a year as artist in residence at Southern University, New Orleans. Ntiro from 1961-64 was Tanzania´s High Commissioner in London before returning to a Professorship at Makerere.
Ntiro is one of Tanzania´s most famous artists. In addition to MOMA in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, his paintings are held in numerous public collections including the British Government Art Collection, the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum in Bristol, Ira-Hameen Museum in Finland and the Bridgeman Art Library. Seven works feature on the ArtSite Africa - an on-line guide to the finest work from Africa - and he is highlighted as one of Africa´s "canonical" painters in the Africa South Art Initiative.
Condition
Auktionsnummer:
344423
Date:
2015-11-23