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22 May 2019 - 14:00 (CEST) -
51, rue Prévost-Martin - CH-1205 Genève
The Obamas’s future portraitist, Kehinde Wiley, depicts the abolition of slavery in Brazil.
Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977), Alegoria a Lei do Ventre Livre (Allegory of the Law of the Free Belly), 2009, oil on canvas, 183 x 153 cm. Estimate: CHF50,000/80,000
Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977), Alegoria a Lei do Ventre Livre (Allegory of the Law of the Free Belly), 2009, oil on canvas, 183 x 153 cm. Estimate: CHF50,000/80,000
Here Kehinde Wiley celebrates neither a statesman nor a representative of the Brazilian elite, but a humble young man from Rio’s favelas. In this portrait, a genre rooted…
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