It Happened Behind Me

Artist Tayo Adenaike (Nigerian, born 1954)

Date1995

Geographic OriginNigeria

DimensionsOverall (work alone): 26 1/4 × 40 in. (66.7 × 101.6 cm)
Framed: 27 × 40 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (68.6 × 103.5 × 3.8 cm)

Credit LineThe Simon Ottenberg Collection, gift to the Newark Museum, 2012

Object number2012.38.66

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Published Title It Happened Behind Me

Remarks Simon Ottenberg, New Traditions from Nigeria

Inscriptionsrecto: l.r. acrylic "A Adenaike 6 '95"ProvenanceDr. Simon Ottenberg, Seattle, Washington, ca. 1997 - October 2012.

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