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ALEXANDER SKUNDER BAGHOSSIAN (1937 - 2003)
Untitled (Abstract Composition)
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Oil on burlap, 1966. 762x762 mm; 30x30 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right.
Provenance: private NewYork collection.
This vivid canvas is an excellent, early example of the painting of an artist who crossed many
boundaries. Baghossian is one of the greatest Ethiopian artists and was one of Africa’s best known
contemporary artists. He was also a widely respected painting professor at Howard University in
Washington, DC from 1974 until 2000. Baghossian was influenced by a broad range of international
and black cultures—he embraced both the “Pan-African” and universal movements. He is the first
Ethiopian artist to have works acquired by the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris in 1963, the Museum
of Modern Art, NewYork in 1965, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African
Art in 1992.
[8,000/12,000]