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    • Omar Lama, 20th century, Fertility Doll
      Dec. 04, 2021

      Omar Lama, 20th century, Fertility Doll

      Est: $3,000 - $5,000

      Omar Lama 20th century Fertility Doll c. 1970 ink on paper 11 x 13 1/2 inches signed A similar example was included in the collection of the Johnson Publishing Company, Chicago, IL. Lama was an early member of Africobra.

      Black Art Auction
    • Omar Lama, 20th Century, Portrait of Darlene Blackburn, ink drawing on paper, 14.5 x 11 inches
      Jul. 11, 2020

      Omar Lama, 20th Century, Portrait of Darlene Blackburn, ink drawing on paper, 14.5 x 11 inches

      Est: $500 - $700

      Omar Lama 20th Century Portrait of Darlene Blackburn ink drawing on paper c. 1975 Signed Lama was a founding member of Africobra. In May 1970, Omar Lama, a draftsman, came to an Africobra meeting. Jeff invited him mainly because Omar had reproductions of his work, and Jeff wanted to increase our ranks to ten. Omar's medium was pen and ink. He presented a black and white print of an exquisite drawing of the dancer Darlene Blackburn. �Wadsworth Jarrell. (The drawing mentioned was a different image of the same subject, pictured in The Art of Omar Lama, p. 30). Blackburn was, of course, a well-known modernist dancer and choreographer from Chicago. 14.5 x 11 inches

      Black Art Auction
    • OMAR LAMA Fertility Doll.
      Jan. 30, 2020

      OMAR LAMA Fertility Doll.

      Est: $4,000 - $6,000

      OMAR LAMA Fertility Doll. Watercolor and ink on illustration board, circa 1970. 965x508 mm; 38x20 inches. Signed in ink, lower left recto. Titled in ink, verso. Provenance: the Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., Chicago. A Chicago native, Omar Lama was an early and active member of the artist collective AfriCOBRA - showing in its first two exhibitions, the 1969 AfriCOBRA: Ten in Search of a Nation and the 1970 AfriCOBRA II exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Lama designed the artwork for the cover of the seminal publication of the Black Arts movement, the 1974 Black Book, a collection of writings and illustrations edited by Toni Morrison. Lama developed his direct, graphic art with compositions of line and geometric abstraction. Lama studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago State University, and the South Community Art Center in Chicago. His work was recently included in Africobra and Beyond. DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, July 28 - September 29, 2013, and AfriCOBRA: Messages to the People, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, November 27, 2018 - March 24, 2019.

      Swann Auction Galleries
    • Omar Lama Untitled Portrait of Darlene Blackburn
      Nov. 24, 2019

      Omar Lama Untitled Portrait of Darlene Blackburn

      Est: $1,500 - $2,500

      Omar Lama (mid 20th Century) Untitled (Portrait of Darlene Blackburn), c. 1975 ink drawing on paper signed framed 14-1/2 x 11 inches (full sheet)

      Treadway Gallery
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