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Black People in European Sculpture Project

Raimi

Raimi

Entry ID

  • 116 (08/02/2022)

Formal title of the work

  • Raimi

Previous title(s)

  • Portrait Head, Raimi

Description of the sculpture

  • Cast iron portrait head of artist, writer and academic Raimi Gbadamosi.

URLs where this is recorded/available

Type of object

  • Head

Base

  • No base

Materials

  • Iron

Specific techniques used

  • Casting

Overall colour

  • Monochrome – black

Does the Black person have a specific identity?

  • Identifiable: specific individual

Identity of Black person (real or fictive)

Role within sculpture

  • Main protagonist

Gender

  • Male

Age

  • Adult

Status

  • Free citizen

Clothing

  • No clothes included (head)

Evidence of enslavement

  • None

Evidence of 'exotic' status

  • None

Action or activity

  • Not relevant (head)

Emotional state

  • Indeterminate

Focus of gaze of Black person

  • Looking outwards (engaging viewer)

Sculptural context

  • No location included/implied

Sculptor

Place of production

Period of production

  • Twenty-first century (2000 -2099)

Date of Production

  • 2010

Date inferred from

  • Recorded in related documentation

Original purpose

  • Commemorative

Original display setting

  • Unknown

Current owner

Current / most recently known location

Accession number

  • 1524

Related objects

Current rights holder

License terms for reuse

  • In Copyright

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Bust 1Bust Related objects E22 Man-Made Object

http://13.41.147.145/s/database/item/962, . (no date) ‘Raimi’, Black People in European Sculpture, accessed May 5, 2025, http://13.41.147.145/s/database/item/961

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