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Bruce Onobrakpeya

born 1932

Veronica wipes Jesus’ face 1969
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14 artworks by Bruce Onobrakpeya
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Biography

Bruce Obomeyoma Onobrakpeya (born 30 August 1932) is a Nigerian printmaker, painter and sculptor. He has exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, the National Museum of African Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Malmö Konsthall in Malmö, Sweden.The National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos, has an exhibit of colourful abstract canvases by Onobrakpeyaand his works can be found at the Virtual Museum of Modern Nigerian Art, although no exhibitions were showing as of October 2017.

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Artworks

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  • Jesus and the women of Jerusalem

    Bruce Onobrakpeya
    1969
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  • Jesus’ clothes are torn off

    Bruce Onobrakpeya
    1969
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  • Jesus dies on the cross

    Bruce Onobrakpeya
    1969
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  • Jesus falls the first time

    Bruce Onobrakpeya
    1969
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  • Jesus falls the second time

    Bruce Onobrakpeya
    1969
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  • Jesus falls the third time

    Bruce Onobrakpeya
    1969
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  • Jesus is condemned to death

    Bruce Onobrakpeya
    1969
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  • Jesus is laid in the tomb

    Bruce Onobrakpeya
    1969
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