Apr 22, 2021 - Sale 2565

Sale 2565 - Lot 127

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
DINDGA MCCANNON (1947 - )
International Benin Awards 1979.

Linoleum cut on cream Japan paper, 1979. 298x394 mm; 11 3/4x15 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered (3/6 and 5/8) twice in pencil, lower margin.

The International Benin Award was an award given by the Benin people of West Africa for cultural services to the artist community in the 1970s. Artists McCannon and Ademola Olugebefola made prints as a mock up for this award - likely submissions for a design competition.