The Prisoner (O prisioneiro)

Prints and Drawings

1969

Malangatana Valente Ngwenya
Mozambican, 1936-2011

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Malangatana Valente Ngwenya
Title: The Prisoner (O prisioneiro)
Place: Mozambique (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1969
Medium: Pen and black ink on paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower right, in pen and black ink: “Malangatana 1969”
Dimensions: 43.5 × 32.5 cm (17 3/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2021.15
Copyright: © 1965 Fundação Malangatana Valente Ngwenya.

Art Institute of Chicago, Malangatana: Mozambique Modern, July 30–Nov, 16, 2020.

Estate of the artist; sold through Gallery MOMA, Johannesburg, South Africa, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.

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