Flora Wirgman
Cataloguer
£4,000 - £6,000
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Head of Department
Group Head, Fine Art, U.K
Provenance
John Martin Gallery, London;
A private collection, UK.
Like his father and grandfather before him, Asiru Olatunde was a blacksmith. In 1961 he began to create figures of animals out of recycled copper and aluminium, and this work evolved into a unique repoussé technique on copper and aluminium panels. His subjects include narratives drawn from Yoruba oral tradition, Biblical stories presented in Nigerian settings, and scenes from everyday life.