Ibrahima Kébé (1955-2019) - La fratrie

Unique contemporary African naive art painting - Senegal by artist Ibrahima Kébé

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

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

Ibrahima Kebé apprehends the universe by telling us stories with his brush, capturing moments of happiness — children playing, women talking, characters in motion captured by their dreams. The actors in these scenes of life, often with elongated necks, which gives them a coquettish air, charm, a certain sway — a flexibility in the face of life’s vagaries — go about their occupations.

No other artist in the contemporary arts of Senegal worked 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 many countries and to countless collectors around the world.

Provenance: private collection - Côte d’Azur

22x48cm

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