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Lot 72*

Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe
(Ghanaian, born 1990)
Kill them with my innocence unframed and unstretched.

12 October 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £17,750 inc. premium

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Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe (Ghanaian, born 1990)

Kill them with my innocence
signed and dated 'Kwame Kye 17'; signed, inscribed and dated (verso)
oil on canvas with collage
76.2 x 76.2cm (30 x 30in).
unframed and unstretched.

Footnotes

Provenance
Acquired from the Artist's Alliance Gallery, Accra;
A private collection.

The artist attended the Ghanatta College of Art and Design for Fine Art in Accra and now lives and works in Portland, Oregon. He held his first exhibition in the USA "Black Like Me" at Roberts Projects Gallery, Los Angeles in January 2020.

"Colour means a great deal where I come from. It's a distinguishing quality - the very means of self-expression". - Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe

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