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Lot 70*

Oseloka Okwudii Osadebe
(Nigerian, born 1934)
The Milk Maid, 1965

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

£12,000 - £18,000

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Oseloka Okwudii Osadebe (Nigerian, born 1934)

The Milk Maid, 1965
oil on canvas
123.5 x 59.5cm (48 5/8 x 23 7/16in).

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Provenance
A private collection.

Exhibited
Lagos, SMO Contemporary Art, 'Oseloka Osadebe – Inner Light", Feb, 2019.

Oseloka Osadebe is the lesser known "Zaria Rebel". He arrived at the Zaria College in 1958 and graduated in 1962. Whilst at Zaria he counted the great artists: Demas Nwoko, Yusuf Grillo and Uche Okeke amongst his peers. In 1964 he left Nigeria to pursue a career in the USA and so lost contact with his fellow Zaria artists, who were to become the fathers of modern Nigerian art.

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