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KEHINDE WILEY (1977 - ) Untitled (Self-Portrait).
Graphite, watercolor, and ink wash on wove paper, 1998. 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; C. C. H. Pounder, Pounder-Kone Art Space, Los Angeles (circa 2000); private collection New York (2005).
Kehinde Wiley drew this striking self-portrait when he was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1977, Wiley's father is Yoruba from Nigeria, and his mother is African-American. In high school, Wiley gained critical attention with a series of paintings of African women in tribal and regional costume. In 1998, he began his Limbo series of surreal portrait paintings while earning his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He graduated in the spring of 1999, and entered the MFA program at Yale University that fall.
