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N350/$1
DOTUN
POPOOLA

Born in 1981. Dotun Popoola is a Nigerian painter and
sculptor who holds a National Diploma in painting
and general arts from Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State,
and a BA in sculpture and MA in painting from
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Though
still active as a painter (especially of murals), Popoola
has more recently been engaged in an ongoing series
of hybrid artworks that fuse sculpture and painting,
and involve the welding together of scrap metal of all
kinds — car parts, kitchen utensils, etc. — to create
imposing pieces in varying degrees of anatomical
LOT 70 precision, that allude to a variety of upheavals in
African society. Popoola has participated in over
Night of a classical music, 2018 thirty group shows in Nigeria and the United States,
Metal - (W90 x H120 x D12) 35 x 47 x 8 in. and his work has been the subject of three solo
Signed and Dated (Lower Right) exhibition.
N2,000,000 - N2,100,000