Object Details
- Label Text
- These two drawings of figures animating yet remaining isolated from their surroundings will represent the first introduction of contemporary works by a Cameroonian artist into the permanent collection,
- Most likely part of the artist's series, "Fragments," these mixed media drawings were included in his first U.S. exhibition at the Skoto Gallery, Turbulence.
- Description
- Mixed media drawing on paper of an animated figure bent and moving from the center to the proper right of the picture frame. The figure appears to be male and wearing black pants as he skulks across the red land, and a black parachute or length of fabric wraps above, behind and above him against a patchy white backdrop.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Pefura, born 1967, France
- Date
- 1999
- Credit Line
- Anonymous gift in honor of Professor Arnold Rubin
- Medium
- Mixed media on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 14.9 x 14.9 cm (5 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
- Framed: 23.7 x 24 cm (9 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing and Collage
