Color pastels, gouache and watercolor on J. Perrigot Arches Special MBM paper, 1982. 565x765 mm; 22 1/4x30 1/4 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Private collection, New Jersey.
Keita (1947-2014) was born on Gorée Island, Senegal, and studied art at the École des Arts du Senegal in Dakar from 1960-64. He continued his studies at the Atelier de Céramique, Senegal, from 1964-67. Among his instructors was the late Senegalese modernist painter Iba N'Diaye (1928-2008). Through the 1960s Keita became one of the leading figures of L'école de Dakar and was also widely traveled and exhibited. He lived and worked in New York from 1979-85.
