01 Work , Orientalist Artist, Adiodun Olaku’s The Crest Chargec, with footnotes #134
The Crest Chargec, c. 1993
Oil on canvas
102 by 120cm., 40⅛ by 47¼in.
Private collection
Estimate for 5,000–7,000 GBP in Sep 2024
Abiodun Olawale Olaku was born in 1958 in Ibadan. He completed his Higher National Diploma at the Yaba College of Technology between 1976 and 1981 before joining the Federal civil service, where he served while creating art for the next seven years, resigning in February 1989 to pursue a full-time studio practice. Olaku combines a calm realism with subtle contrasts of light and shade to convey a heightened sense of drama in his canvases. Working from dark to light, he builds up his forms in increasingly lighter tones from a fairly consistent underlay of grays, and then applies the strongest highlights. Olaku’s success is hinged largely on this masterful play of shadows and half-lights in creating mood and suggesting thought and feeling.
Olaku is a member of the Society of Nigeria Artists (SNA); a founding member, inaugural vice president and trustee of the Guild of Professional Fine Artists of Nigeria (GFA); and a founder and trustee of The Universal Studios of Art, National Theatre, Lagos. More on Abiodun Olawale Olaku
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