Seyni Awa CAMARA (born around 1945, Senegal). Terracotta tra - Lot 102

Seyni Awa CAMARA (born around 1945, Senegal). Terracotta tractor. Size: 32x29 cm. Provenance: Private collection of the former Parisian gallery owner FRANKA BERNDT. Note: Seyni Awa Camara was born in the village of Bignona, in Casamance, southern Senegal, where she still lives and works today. She is currently considered Africa's foremost "art brut" potter. She was revealed to the art world at the legendary "Les magiciens de la Terre" exhibition in 1989 at the Centre Pompidou. Recent exhibitions: - The White Hunter - FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, from March 31 to June 6, 2017. - Fondation Louis Vuitton, "Art/Afrique Le Nouvel Atelier", April 26 to August 28, 2017. - Palais des Papes, Avignon, "Les éclaireurs: sculpteurs d'Afrique", Jean-Paul Blachère collection, May 19, 2017 to January 14, 2018. Literary reference: - Suzanne Pagé, "Seni Awa Camara", Le printemps africain (Hors-série), Le Monde, May-June 2017, page 2.