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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.

On a thick blue piece of paper there is a figure covering almost the entire surface. It is painted in painted in shades of brown. The figure's head fills the upper third. The body extends downwards over the rest of the surface. Under The arms hang downwards to the right and left of the figure's body under drooping shoulders. downwards. The hands are on the same level as the figure's feet. figure's feet. The feet are turned inwards. The fingers on the hands are spread apart. The entire torso is covered with horizontal and vertical lines which form a grid or a net. form a grid or net.

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Iwalewahaus, Universität Bayreuth
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Object type
drawings (visual works)
Current location
Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth
Inventory number
G01019WN

Provenance and sources

when
1950
where
Abeokuta, Nigeria
who
Raji

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