Untitled (Figure with dance wand "oshe shango") · Gbadamosi, Buraimoh (*1938), Nigeria · ID: 3046958
Rolf Crüsemann-Brockmann, Hamburg, Germany
Description
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Buraimoh Gbadamosi is an important representative of the New Sacred Art movement, which established itself in Nigeria in the 1960s in the environment of the artist and Yoruba priest Susanne Wenger and sought to revive the sacred grove of Oshogbo.
Gbadamosis stone and wood sculptures characterize this sacred grove in southwest Nigeria, which has been recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site since 2005.
The object Untitled (Figure with dance wand “oshe shango”) with the object ID 3046958 was last part of the auction Voyage Tribal Art - Live Online Auction at May 23, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 110.
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