Nov 16, 2023 - Sale 2653

Sale 2653 - Lot 309

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
BARTHÉLÉMY TOGUO
Love Forest.

Color inks on canvas, 2018. 2000x2000 mm; 78 3/4x78 3/4 inches. Signed and dated in oil, verso.

Provenance: Nosbaum Reding Gallery / Projects, Luxembourg; private collection, New York.

Exhibited: "Heimatlos," Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg, October 25, 2018-January 5, 2019.

Toguo (born 1967) is a Cameroonian painter, and a visual and performing artist. He currently splits his time living and working in both Paris, France and Bandjoun, Cameroon. He works in a variety of media aside from visual and performing arts including photographs, prints, sculptures, videos, and installations. His work addresses migration, colonialism, race, exile and displacement. Toguo's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Pérez Art Museum Miami; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon; Fondation Louis Vuitton; and Kunstsammlungen der Stadt, Düsseldorf, among others.