Ibrahima Kébé (1955-2019) - La fratrie

A unique painting of contemporary African naive art - Senegal, by artist Ibrahima Kébé.

Ibrahima Kébé, born October 2, 1955 in Kaolack and died September 8, 2019 in Dakar, was a contemporary Senegalese artist.

Kébé was a painter of everyday life: he created snapshots of life in Senegalese society. He painted fleeting moments of life, vividly colored, filled with naïveté, poetry, sincerity and emotion.

Ibrahima Kebé apprehends the universe by telling us stories with his brush, capturing moments of happiness — children who play, women who talk to each other, characters in motion caught up in their dreams. The actors in these scenes, often with their heads tilted, which gives them a coquettish air, a charm, a flexible bearing in the face of life’s uncertainties, go about their occupations.

No other artist, in Senegal’s contemporary arts, did as he did, creating such forms with such colors. In his works, women occupied a place that was at least essential, if not predominant.

His works have been exhibited in numerous countries and owned by countless collectors around the world.

Provenance : private collection - Côte d’Azur

22x48cm

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