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The Artists
Aina Onabolu
The founding act of Nigerian modernity — a self-taught portraitist whose technical mastery dismantled colonial assumptions about African artistic ability.
Akinola Lasekan
Nigeria's first political cartoonist and a naturalist portraitist, who co-founded the School of Fine Arts at Nsukka.
Tega Akpokona
Light as substance, not style — a Yaba-lineage painter placing contemporary Black figures in chiaroscuro worthy of the Dutch masters.
Tola Wewe
A founding member of the Ona movement, channelling Yoruba cosmology and ancestral myth through layered, chromatic surfaces.
Bruce Onobrakpeya
Co-founder of the Zaria Rebels and master of the plastograph — at ninety-two, still the defining figure of Nigerian modernism.
Emmanuel Mbanefo
A restless hand moving between pastel, oil and ink, rendering Igbo masquerade iconography and Onitsha civic life.
FEATURED WORKS
Four pieces, four voices
A small selection chosen to show the range of mood and medium across the collection.
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150 works spanning nine decades, from the 1930s to studios working in Lagos today.
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