Escape I
Artist
Viyé Diba
Senegalese, born 1954
Date1999
MediumPaint, sand, wood, sawdust, metal, cotton strip-woven cloth
Dimensions66 x 56 in. (167.6 x 142.2 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds provided by the Friends of African and African American Art
Object number2016.12
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesAllan F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts, A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal (Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Art, 2003), 199.
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, CA, Fowler Museum of Art, UCLA, February 9–July 27, 2003.
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