Author: Titus
In copyright
The drawing was created in 1950 in the
"Lantoro Mental Home" in Abeokuta, Nigeria. In 1982 it was exhibited together with
with other drawings made in Abeokuta in 1950, in the exhibition
exhibition "Hapless Heads. Paintings by crazy people from Nigeria"
(Luckless Heads. Painting by de-ranged Nigerians) in Bayreuth.
were shown in Bayreuth.
The portrait-format picture is optically
divided into two parts. In the slightly larger upper section there is a four-legged
animal in yellow tones with brown legs looking to the left.
to the left. In the slightly smaller lower section there is also an animal
a four-legged animal in shades of yellow with brown legs,
also looking to the left. Both animals have a greenish tail on the right side
of the leaf have a greenish tail. The snout and the eye are also
also in shades of green. Both animals appear to be floating on the leaf
floating on the leaf, as there is no bottom. The animals were drawn with a
drawn with a pencil. The drawing was then coloured in with watercolours
coloured in with watercolours. The animals appear to belong to the same
genus, whereby the animal on the upper half of the sheet is larger
larger than the animal on the lower half of the sheet.
is larger than the animal on the lower half.
