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Lot 35

Afewerk Tekle
(Ethiopian, 1932-2012)
'The Horrors of War no. 3'

17 March 2021, 17:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £6,375 inc. premium

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Afewerk Tekle (Ethiopian, 1932-2012)

'The Horrors of War no. 3'
signed and dated 'Afewerk Tekle 1960'
oil on canvas board
76 x 50cm (29 15/16 x 19 11/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
The collection of Professor Torvald Åkesson (1910-1990).

Exhibited
Addis Ababa, Retrospective 1961, no. 20, illust (b/w) page 19.

In his introduction to the Retrospective Exhibition catalogue the noted Ethiopian scholar and close friend of the artist Dr. Richard Pankhurst states:

"By 1960 the lines are no longer bright. They darken and take on symbolic meaning: witness the cobweb of lines over the hideous face of the third and harshest version of "War" painted in 1960."

Prof Åkesson worked for the Ethio-Swedish Institute of Building Technology in Addis Ababa from 1960 to 1963.

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