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Bruce Onobrakpeya

Izobo, (Yellow base), 1971
Plastograph, 13/15
dimensions: 33 X 25"

Izobo is a Urhobo word meaning Sacrifice. The picture draws attention to the multiplicity of human problems. A priest makes a sacrifice to a diety and as one of its many heads seams satisfied, another makes a demand.

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