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Art Market Overview: Omar Ba, a Young Talent in the African Art Scene

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Recently exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2019) and the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2020), Senegalese artist Omar Ba (b. 1977) is now considered one of the most promising artists in the African scene.

Piasa achieved the artist's highest hammer price, €56,000, for This Way is Not Easy... Art Market Overview: Omar Ba, a Young Talent in the African Art Scene
Piasa achieved the artist's highest hammer price, €56,000, for This Way is Not Easy 2 (2011) by Omar Ba.
In 2014, the Piasa Auction House found no buyers for a monumental work (203 x 150 cm/80 x 59 in), Au royaume des pyromanes ( In the Kingdom of Pyromaniacs…
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