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Derrick Adams, André Butzer, Jonni Cheatwood, Gregory Crewdson, Peter Doig, Heri Dono, Don Eddy, Tracey Emin, Rafael Gómezbarros, Ellen Gronemeyer, Maggi Hambling, Damien Hirst, Mark Innerst, Marcus Jansen, Alex Katz, Michael Kenna, Minjung Kim, Jeff Koons, Steve McCurry, Harding Meyer, Yue Minjun, OlumideOresegun, Alex Prager, Donald Sultan, Jannis Varelas, and Jonas Wood, among many others.

Olumide Oresegun is a West African hyperrealism artist who has taken the art world by storm, with his own individual record breaking sales at Sotheby’s, he has become a firmfavorite among collectors. His work is highly meticulous and distinctive and become one of the leading artists to
specialise in this style of painting on the African continent, already inspiring an entire new generation, fighting against the previous monopoly of the Western canon which hashistorically excluded artists from this region. Represented by his name sake Olumide Gallery London, founded by Scottish V & ADesign Champion and MBE Eunice Olumide the first black Scottish woman to open an Art Gallery in UK history commented:

‘When I first discovered Olumide deep in the plains of West Africa, his work was exemplary. From then on it was my mission to ensure he had the opportunity toshare his incredible and unique works with the world’.

A social media phenomenon featured on CNN for his vivid and enigmatic style, his talent could not be more timely and has proved to be a firm favorite in engaging new buyers.Olumide Gallery London teams up with the NEW YORK, NY - The American Friends of Museums in Israel represents and raises funds for eight outstanding and diversemuseums throughout Israel:

Design Museum Holon, Haifa City Museum, Haifa Museum of Art, Hermann Struck Museum, Mané-Katz Museum, National Maritime Museum, Tikotin Museum ofJapanese Art, and Tower of David Jerusalem Museum. May 9-23, 2023 Art Online Benefit Auction hosted by Artsy from May 9-23, 2023.

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The online auction features over 60 works including paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper by celebrated artists including: Derrick Adams, André Butzer, Jonni Cheatwood, Gregory Crewdson, Peter Doig, Heri Dono, Don Eddy, Tracey Emin, Rafael Gómezbarros, Ellen Gronemeyer, Maggi Hambling, Damien Hirst, Mark Innerst, Marcus Jansen, Alex Katz, Michael Kenna, Minjung Kim, Jeff Koons, Steve McCurry, Harding Meyer, Yue Minjun, Olumide Oresegun, Alex Prager, Donald Sultan, Jannis Varelas, and Jonas Wood, amoung many others.

Partner Museums: News and Recent Exhibitions Highlights Tower of David Jerusalem Museum is located within the ancient walls of a citadel that guards the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City The museum’s ongoing $50 million Renewal and Conservation Project will, among other things, preserve and conserve the citadel and introduce recent technologies that will present the 3,500-year history of Jerusalem in innovative ways. A separate project is the construction of a Contemporary Art and Design Gallery. Whencompleted in the coming months, it will be the only contemporary art gallery in the Old City. Plans are underway right next to the museum for the construction of the new Tower of David Learning Center that will include a complex of classrooms and offices for the expanded education department. Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Haifa holds one of the largest and most importantcollections of Japanese art outside Japan. The recent exhibition, Time Tunnel – Japan and the Jews, marked 70 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and Israel. Works on view by Japanese artists including Tatsuo Miyajima and Yuki Onodera focused on the meeting point between Japan and the Jews in relation to the Jewish narrative of rescue and extermination. Design Museum Holon, housed in an iconic building by acclaimed architect Ron Arad, isIsrael’s only museum exclusively dedicated to design. The recent exhibition, Alber Elbaz: The Dream Factory, was the most extensive exhibition of the international fashion legend to date, and included couture pieces, rare archival material, personal objects, and photographs on public view for the first time. Haifa Museum of Art is northern Israel’s leading contemporary art institution. The current exhibition, Northern Wind: Israeli Art from the Museum's Collection, reflects Haifa’s uniqueness as a port city with works on view examining the relationship it shares between its immigrants and refugees. About American Friends of Museums in Israel The American Friends of Museums in Israel recognizes, promotes, and honors its outstanding partner museums in Israel by providing exhibition, program, project, and financial support through the generosity of its donors. In addition, the non-profit organization provides heightened visibility for its partner museums through special events held in New York, virtual programming, and promotional materials.

Celebrating tartan and its global impact, the exhibition explores how tartan has connected and divided communities worldwide, how it has embraced tradition, expressed revolt, and inspired great works of art as well as playful and provocative designs.

Tartan brings together a dazzling selection of more than 300 objects from over 80 lenders worldwide, illustrating tartan’s universal and enduring appeal through iconic and everyday examples of fashion, architecture, graphic and product design, photography, furniture, glass and ceramics, film, performance and art.

The exhibition features loans from across Scotland and around the world, including Chanel, Dior, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Tate, V&A, National Museums of Scotland, National Trust for Scotland, National Theatre of Scotland, The Royal Collection, Fashion Museum Bath, the Highland Folk Museum and more, many of which are being shown together in Scotland for the first time. In honor of this groundbreaking exhibition the Victoria Albert Museum has nominated V & A Design Champion MBE Eunice Olumide as the exhibition's official Global Ambassador. Founder and owner of Olumide Galleries LTD who represent artists including Richard Wilson, Olumide Oresegun and Nick Walker. The definition of a modern maverick, Scotland’s first black supermodel has worked with the museum across the United Kingdom since 2018, as well as pioneering exhibitions and symposiums at the Tate, British Museum and The National Museum of Scotland.

‘For me the significance of tartan goes beyond clothing and attire. It is a movement of great power, rebellion and authenticity which is just as relevant today as it was hundreds of years ago’.

MBE Eunice Olumide

Decolonising our museum and ensuring the celebration of Modern and Contemporary artists is an ever pressing cultural responsibility to within the art world. This month Olumide Gallery teams up with the National Museum of Scotland to deliver Celebrating Black Fashion after the success of Body Beautiful. Curators include Managing Director Eunice Olumide, V & A Design Champion and MBE for Broadcasting, Arts and Charity.

Georgina Ripley is Principal Curator of Modern & Contemporary Design at National Museums Scotland, and is responsible for the modern and contemporary fashion and textile collections, from 1850 to the present day. Georgina curated National Museums Scotland’s touring exhibition, Body Beautiful: Diversity on the Catwalk currently being shown at The Civic in Barnsley.

Mal Burkinshaw is Head of the School of Design at Edinburgh College of Art. Mal was formerly Programme Director of Fashion and led the Diversity Network, sharing best practice on the theme of diversity and engagement with users' needs and feelings. Please contact us for further information.

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Internationally renowned sculptor, Sokari Douglas Camp, creates her works primarily in steel. Her often large-scale sculptures make frequent reference to her Nigerian roots, at the same time encompassing contemporary international issues. Douglas Camp is one of the winners of the Memorial for Ken Saro-Wiwa in London and was also one of the shortlisted artists for the Fourth Plinth in 2003. She has had more than forty solo shows worldwide and in 2005, was awarded a CBE in recognition of her services to art. Her work is in the permanent collections of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; and the British Museum, London, UK. In 2012, her large sculpture, All the World is Now Richer, a memorial to commemorate the abolition of slavery, was exhibited in The House of Commons and then in 2014 at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. In 2016, her successful solo show, Primavera,brought together major new sculptures which focussed on the reinterpretation of familiar figures from the European classic tradition as depicted by Botticelli and William Blake. Douglas Camp was selected for Ichihara Art X Mix 2020, Japan and created the largescale sculpture Manmade for the festival, on a moving tram carriage at Goi Station. She was also one of the international artists selected to create a column for STOA169 in Polling, Germany; a globally unique artist columned permanent hall that unites contemporary artistic ideas and different cultural concepts in one place.

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Bonhams, founded in 1793, is one of the world's largest and most renowned auctioneers, offering fine art and antiques, motor cars and jewelry. The main salerooms are in London, New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong, with auctions also held in Knightsbridge, Edinburgh, Paris, San Francisco and Sydney. With a worldwide network of offices and regional representatives in 22 countries, Bonhams offers advice and valuation services in 60 specialist areas. For a full list of forthcoming auctions, plus details of Bonhams specialist departments, please visit bonhams.com. Bonhams teams up with Olumide Galleries MD see Under The Hammer

The Arab community of Zanzibar was a powerful inspiration for the South African painter Irma Stern during her two extended stays on the island in 1939 and 1945. She was particularly fascinated by the older men in whose faces she saw, in her own words, “depths of suffering, profound wisdom and full understanding of all the pleasures of life – faces alive with life's experiences.” One of the fruits of her second Zanzibar trip, Arab with Dagger leads Bonhams’ Modern and Contemporary African Art sale in London on Wednesday 17 March. It has an estimate of £700,000-1,000,000.

As with many works from Stern’s Zanzibar trips, the painting is perfectly framed in wood cut from Zanzibar doors. In their complete state, the highly distinctive doors were subject to an export ban, but there was nothing to prevent Stern’s Arab carpenter from converting them into picture frames.

Bonhams Director of African Art, Giles Peppiatt said: “Arab with Dagger is a remarkable work and shows Irma Stern at her best. Like many of her portraits from this period, it conveys not only an individual likeness, but also the fatalism and the deep spiritually that the artist found among the Arab people, and which she so much admired.”

Writing in the spring edition of Bonhams Magazine, Claire Wrathall shows how Stern’s Zanzibar works represent a perfect blend of the inspiration she took from her new environment with the influence of her artistic training in Germany after the First World War, and especially that of her mentor, the great German Expressionist painter and sculptor, Max Pechstein. Of Arab with Dagger, Wrathall writes: “It’s an uneasy portrait, a suspicious rather than a sympathetic one, but that air of unease gives it the emotional truth that defines Stern as South Africa’s first true Expressionist.”

Bonhams has sold many works from Irma Stern’s Zanzibar period including Arab Priest (1945), which achieved £3 million in 2011, making this the world auction record for a painting by Stern and the most valuable South African painting ever sold at auction. It was bought by the Qatar Museums Authority and is part of the collection of the Orientalist Museum in Doha, Qatar.

EMERGING YOUNG ARTISTS SHOWCASED AT BONHAMS MODERN & CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART SALE

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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami (Zimbabwean, born 1993), Adam and Steve joined by the knee, a study.

Estimate: £30,000 - 50,000.

Proving that Africa is still the hot continent, Bonhams next Modern and Contemporary African Art sale in London on 17 March will showcase a host of exciting young talent, alongside established big names. One of the highlights is Adam and Steve joined by the knee, a study, produced by the 27-year-old Zimbabwean artist, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami. The work has an estimate of £30,000 - £50,000.

Born in 1993, Hwami has already received more acclaim in her short career than many artists achieve in a lifetime – and her star is still on the rise. Selected to represent Zimbabwe at the Venice Biennale in 2019, aged only 26, Hwami has already enjoyed successful solo exhibitions at the Tyburn Gallery and Gasworks in London and is represented up by Victoria Miro. Later this year, she will showcase her works at a group exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.

Helene Love-Allotey, specialist in Modern and Contemporary African Art at Bonhams, commented: “Hwami is one of the most exciting young artists around right now. Her work asks the viewer to consider weighty topics – such as identity, sexuality, and desire – but her handling is witty and fresh, as is evidenced by the title of the work, Adam and Steve joined by the knee, a study. When asked what precipitated her interest in art, Hwami has often credited her love of cartoons, and in paricular, Manga. As a child, she would sketch her favourite characters, and the influence of these animations is evident in the dynamism of her compositions. Although monumental in size, the work retains a delicate intimacy.”

Hwami’s work starts with a collage of images and photographs, around which she constructs a painted narrative. She says that this approach was partly influenced by the creative sharing of images on social media sites such as Tumblr: “I spent a lot of time on the internet as a pre-teen and, in that socially awkward stage of my life, I found it more comfortable to escape and exist in cyberspace. I started exploring sexuality and gender identity. I was obsessed with the idea of physically living in a different body. All my frustration and confusion was expressed through studying the queer body.”

Other highlights of the sale include:

Portia Zvavahera (Zimbabwean, born 1985) Complete, 2014.

Estimate: £60,000 - 90,000

Portia Zvavahera (Zimbabwean, born 1985) Complete, 2014. Estimate: £60,000 - 90,000. Zvavahera has noted the fluidity and flatness afforded by using oil-based inks, allowing her to build richly layered surfaces. She draws upon her deeply held sense of spirituality and accompanying rituals of belief to embody the predominantly female figures. Moving beyond literal autobiography and self-portraiture, the figures depicted become archetypal expressions of feminine experiences of faith and motherhood.Zanele Muholi (South African, born 1972), Isililo XX unframed. Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000. Zanele Muholi is a non-binary artist whose work challenges ideas of both race and sexuality. In 2020 a major exhibition of Muholi’s work opened at the Tate Modern in London. A print by Zanele Muholi “Sasa, Bleecker” sold for £6,800 at Bonhams in March 2020, an unheard-of price for a photograph by a contemporary South African artist.William Joseph Kentridge (South African, born 1955), Orange head. Estimate: £25,000-35,000. Beginning in 1992, Kentridge produced a series of monumental drypoint prints of a head, with hand-painting and torn shards created from varying templates, allowing for incarnations in orange (editioned 1993), blue (editioned 1993-8) and green (1992), though the latter were never editioned. Insight, or the lack thereof, is a central theme in Kentridge's work. The subject's upwardly tilting chin exposes the carotid artery in his extended neck in what can be read as a gesture of either submission or strength: it is unclear whether his eyes are closed in defiance, dreaming, or death.Ndary Lo (Senegalese, born 1961), Taaru à talons, 2013. Estimate: £7,000 - 10,000. The image of a striding figure is a recurring theme of Ndary Lo’s work. The artist created a series of these "hommes qui marche", figures he referred to affectionately as "nit", a Wolof word meaning "person" or "character". The title of this work translates as 'Beauty in heels'. Lo's characteristic slender and elongated figures have often provoked comparisons to Alberto Giacometti – who was himself influenced by African sculptural traditions. Lo's aesthetic has been considered to be a conscious cultural re-appropriation. Zanele Muholi (South African, born 1972),

Isililo XX unframed. Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000.

Leading the sale will be Irma Stern’s Arab with Dagger (within original Zanzibar frame), which has an estimate of £700,000-1,000,000. More information can be found here

More from Under The Hammer:

Yusuf Adebayo Cameron Grillo

Ayi and Tayi £ 100,000 - 150,000 € 120,000 - 170,000

Gerard Sekoto (South African, 1913-1993)

Township scene (unframed). £ 7,000 - 10,000 € 8,100 - 12,000

Abiodun Olaku (Nigerian, born 1958)

Kano Horsemen£ 6,000 - 9,000 € 6,900 - 10,000

Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu M.B.E (Nigerian, 1917-1994)

Anyanwu £ 120,000 - 180,000 € 140,000 - 210,000

Aime Mpane (Democratic Republic of Congo, born 1968)

A portrait of Marie-Pierre Ntiba Kawa £ 7,000 - 10,000 € 8,100 - 12,000

Joseph Ntensibe (Ugandan, born 1953)

Under African Skies £ 10,000 - 15,000 € 12,000 - 17,000

Robert Griffiths Hodgins (South African, 1920-2010)

Robert Griffiths Hodgins (South African, 1920-2010)

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New works available from the inimitable African hyperrealist. Get in touch for his latest work

Driven by a growing market of indigenous investors, African art is commanding increasingly high prices at the world's auction houses. For the second successive year, a painting by the late Ben Enwonwu, widely considered the father of Nigerian modernism, fetched the equivalent of over a million dollars at auction, with his portrait Christine selling for £1.1m ($1.4m) at Sotheby’s, London. In 2018, after decades spent furnishing the wall of a north London flat, Enwonwu’s masterpiece Tutu was auctioned at Bonhams for £1.2m, a figure way beyond its pre-sale estimate of £300,000. Get in touch for new works by Oliver Enwonwu.

New work by exciting Scottish emerging artist Hector Guest. Bronze Sculpture of Patrick Hutchinson’s act of bravery on the 13 June. The self-reflective piece showcasing the artist in place of the protestor is named 'Everyone Versus Racism', highlighting one of the most powerful and definitive moments of 2020.

Join Christine Checinska, Curator of African and African Diaspora Fashion at the V&A; Eunice Olumide MBE, Managing Director of Olumide Galleries; Araminta de Clermont, British photographer; and Bonnie Greer, former Deputy Chair of the British Museum and Co-creator and Curator of the Era of Reclamation series, as they discuss the concept of fashion and art as a means of resistance and power.

As part of the continuing event series Era of Reclamation, they will explore how fashion as art has been used as a way of expressing liberation and will look at the impact the Black Lives Matter movement has had, and continues to have, on the style choices of young black people today.

Born in 1975, Oliver Enwonwu interrogates the complex layers of history between Africa and the West. A painter, he is a third- generation of celebrated artists and son to pioneer modernist Ben Enwonwu.

Emerging African Illustrator Yega picks up esteemed commission for prolific British Vogue

Olumide Gallery represents a remarkable collection of meticulous illustrators. For full in-house consultancy or commissions contact us now for more information

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A response by sustainable artists Ian Berry to Covid-19

Photo realism portraits in ball point pen, by Battersea based artist.

Olumide Gallery MD teams up with Bonhams to exhibit a rare collection of jewellery including a 19th Century amethyst necklace and amethyst diamond rings, as part of the Bonhams Christmas auction Edinburgh Jewels sale.