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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.

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Iwalewahaus, Universität Bayreuth
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Object type
drawings (visual works)
Current location
Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth
Inventory number
G01016WN

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when
1950
where
Abeokuta, Nigeria
who
Titus

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