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162 - Amadou SECK (Dakar, 1950) Portrait, 1979 Oil on canvas 74 x …
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Amadou SECK (Dakar, 1950) Portrait, 1979 Oil on canvas 74 x 51 cm Signed lower right A. SECK *** Oil on canvas, signed lower right, 29⅛ × 20⅛ in. Provenance Collection J. Lassaque, acquired directly from the artist in the 1990s. Born in Dakar in 1950, Amadou Seck joined the École nationale des arts de Dakar in 1966, in the "plastic research" section, where he trained with Pierre Lods. There he developed a unique language based on African visual traditions - the Baga, Dogon, Senoufo and Marka repertoires - which he combined with a rigorous approach to plastic art acquired in a geometric and cubist spirit, encouraged by Pierre Soulages. A close friend of Léopold Sédar Senghor, he represented Senegalese artists abroad on several occasions. His international emergence was rapid, with the "Art sénégalais d'aujourd'hui" exhibition at the Grand Palais in 1974, followed by solo shows in Paris, Milan, Bonn, New York and Dakar. In the 1980s, at the height of his most inventive period, he produced large-scale works on strong cardboard in which pigments, earth and composite materials were mixed with a knife, giving rise to figures with voluminous heads on atrophied bodies - compositions of striking presence. The following decades confirmed his influence, with exhibitions at the WORKS II gallery in New York (1985), the Vasarely Foundation (1990), the Lugano Fair (1994) and the Musée de Saint-Maur (1997). His work remains one of the singular voices of modern Senegalese art.
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About the sale Arab, African & Indian Modernities
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Auction time 06/18/2026 at 2:30 PM
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