Three Wise Men
Victor Ekpuk, Nigerian, born 1964
1996
Acrylic on panel (triptych)
Panel: 48 1/8 × 19 15/16 × 1 3/4 in. (122.2 × 50.7 × 4.5 cm)
Overall: 48 1/8 × 59 7/8 × 1 3/4 in. (122.2 × 152.1 × 4.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Fund
2013.94
Geography
Place Made: Nigeria, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Africa
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Red panel (left): Signed, in red paint, lower left: VICtOR EKPUK / '96; White panel (center): Signed, in pink paint, lower center: VICtOR EKPUK 96; Black panel (right): Signed, in red paint, lower center: VICtOR EKPUK / '96
Course History
SART 31, SART 72, Painting II, III, Colleen Randall, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
Inventory: New Works and Conversations around African Art, Friends Gallery/Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 16-March 13, 2016.
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachussets, March 15, 2016-June 30, 2018.
Provenance
Morton Fine Art, LLC, Washington, D.C.; sold to present collection, 2013.
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