The death of veteran artist, Bisi Fakeye, has thrown many into mourning. The news of his death
came as what many described as shocking.
Fakeye died on Sunday,
October 8, at the Ikorodu General Hospital in Lagos by yet-to-be disclosed
ailHe was born in 1942 at Ila-Orangun, Ekiti.
He was a renowned caver from the great Fakeye family of carvers - Lamidi Fakeye
being the best known.
Bisi apprenticed under Lamidi Fake.
Although he went through school up to teacher training college and abandoned
teaching for carving. Moving to Lagos in 1968, Bisi interacted with formally
trained artists, developed a more commercially based practice, and became part
of the Lagos art scene. After FESTAC 1977, he settled into the studios on the
grounds of the National Theatre, now Universal Studios of Arts.
Many works by the
artist have been sold at auction, including Town Crier; sold at Arthouse
Contemporary Limited 'Modern and Contemporary Art' in 2008 for $12,729.
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