![African Yoruba Bronze Edan (deity Onile, Male / Female): West Africa, Nigeria and Benin, Yoruba peoples, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A pair of linked human male and female representations, cast in bronze, with loop holes connected with a brass chain](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1103/337307/182542818_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1721691916)
Nigerian Art
![African Yoruba Bronze Edan (deity Onile, Male / Female): West Africa, Nigeria and Benin, Yoruba peoples, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A pair of linked human male and female representations, cast in bronze, with loop holes connected with a brass chain](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1103/337307/182542818_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1721691916)
![19th C. Nigerian Brass Tiv Sword w/ Iron Blade: West Africa, Nigeria, Tiv people, ca. late 19th to 20th century CE. A striking Nigerian Tiv sword; the hilt and scabbard covered in brass linear and geometric designs formed via the lost wax technique](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1103/337307/182542811_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1721691916)
![African Yoruba Painted Wood Shango Staff: West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A ceremonial staff known as an Ose Shango featuring a Janiform head - that of the thunder god Shango - as the central element covered in](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1103/335904/181793019_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1720648705)
News about Nigerian Art
![Jasper52 sets focus on Nigerian artist Damola Ayegbayo, March 1](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-22-at-12.25.08-PM-1.png)
Jasper52 sets focus on Nigerian artist Damola Ayegbayo, March 1
NEW YORK – Works by the contemporary Nigerian artist Damola Ayegbayo will almost certainly earn top lot status at Jasper52’s Prints and Fine Art auction, which will be held on Wednesday, March 1 at 5 pm Eastern time. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
![Nigerian artist Jacob Lawrence and Mbari Club explored at Virginia exhibition](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-14-at-11.51.15-AM-1.png)
Nigerian artist Jacob Lawrence and Mbari Club explored at Virginia exhibition
NORFOLK, Va. – Through January 8, 2023, the Chrysler Museum of Art is exhibiting Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club. It represents the debut museum presentation of Jacob Lawrence’s Nigeria series of paintings and drawings and also the first in-depth look at the international artists who were members of the renowned Mbari Artists […]
![Yale hosts 50-year retrospective of Nigerian sculptor](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-18-at-2.31.46-PM.png)
Yale hosts 50-year retrospective of Nigerian sculptor
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Yale University Art Gallery has unveiled an exhibition of sculpture by the Nigerian artist Moshood Olusomo Bamigboye (circa 1885–1975), reuniting masterworks housed in collections in the United States, Europe and Nigeria. Bamigboye: A Master Sculptor of the Yoruba Tradition, on view through January 8, 2023, presents a comprehensive examination of […]
![Jasper52 presents 248 lots of Prints and Fine Art Oct. 4](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/161944723_1_x-1.jpg)
Jasper52 presents 248 lots of Prints and Fine Art Oct. 4
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