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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Light of The Lit Wick 2017

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Oil on linen

201 x 130.5 cm | 79 1/8 x 51 3/8 in.
202 x 132 x 6.5 cm | 79 1/2 x 51 15/16 x 2 9/16 in. (framed)

Signed by the artist, titled and dates ‘2017 / Light of The Lit Wick’ (on the reverse)

PROVENANCE
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Private collection, United States
Acquired from the above by the present owner

EXHIBITION HISTORY
‘Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Under-Song For A Cipher’, New Museum, New York, 3 May – 3 September 2017

LITERATURE
Zadie Smith, ‘Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Imaginary Portraits’, Art Essays: A Collection, ed. Alexandra Kingston-Reese, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 2021, pp. 148 – 49, illustrated (originally published in The New Yorker, 19 June 2017)

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