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Amon Kotei

Amon Kotei (1915 - 2011) was active/lived in Ghana.  Amon Kotei is known for Painting.

Amon Kotei was born in Ghana in 1915 and died in 2011 having established himself as one of Ghana's greatest contemporary artists who was instrumental in designing the Ghanaian National Coat of Arms.  Having served in the Royal West African Frontier Force specifically the Cartography division during the second World War, Kota went on to study at the London College of Printing in 1949.  He returned to Ghana where he was initially employed at the then Gold Coast Government Printing Office. 

Much of his work was inspired by the full figures of market women from Accra's Makola market.  Kotei is one of a small band of modernist Ghanaian artists which include Albert Osabu Bartimeus, who are recognized as fathers of contemporary art in Ghana.  The solid, almost monumental (mostly female) characters that are the subjects of his paintings, exude a sense of pensiveness as well as strength.  Colour as a concept and a reality was fundamental to Kotei's prhttp://theauctionroom.com/auctions/9   ...  [Displaying 1036 of 2208 characters.]  Artist bio

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