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“I’m still in a bit of a daze, because I didn’t do it for all this. I did it because I was just super-frustrated in my house. I guess I was just so used to expressing myself all the time, every two days, out doing a show somewhere new. So I just ordered the oil paints and the canvas.”

is slated to auction off a painting at Sotheby’s Contemporary Curated sale, titled Mama Goes to Market. The painting – which he worked on during lockdown – depicts a market scene in Nigeria, an ode to his African heritage and is among a selection of pieces that will be sold, by Chito, Slawn, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Ouattara Watts and Frank Bowling. 

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