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©Alexander 'Skunder' Boghossian 1937 – 2003

From Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany: The Armenian-Ethiopian artist Alexander Boghossian (aka Skunder) first studied art formally in Europe after he was awarded a scholarship by the Ethiopian government in 1955. He studied for two years in London at St Martin’s School, Central School and the Slade School of Fine Art. He then spent nine years in Paris, where he studied and taught at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. He returned to Ethiopia from 1966 to 1969 and then emigrated to the United States in 1970, where he taught at the historically black college Howard University from 1972 to 2001. Boghossian was involved in the Négritude movement (an extension of Pan-Africanism), and his art brought together European techniques with materials like bark and animal skins. His colorful paintings were inspired by Surrealism, Coptic and West African art. Boghossian depicted prismatic abstract color compositions or dreamlike worlds, often including mythical creatures. He became the first contemporary African artist whose work was purchased by the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (in 1963) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (in 1965).
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The Umbrella 1961	Untitled. Head of a Woman 1961, 29x16cm mixed media on wove paper	Hot Summer Afternoons 1962	Ju Ju's Wedding 1964, 53x50cm tempera and metallic paint on cut and torn cardboard, The Museum of Modern Art, New York	Night Flight of Dread and Delight 1964, 143x159cm oil on canvas with collage, North Carolina Museum of Art	Untitled, Abstract Composition 1964, 28x20cm mixed media and collage on paper	Union 1966, 187x122cm, Collection of the Boghossian Family	Untitled. Abstract Composition 1966	Axum 1967 115x80cm oil on canvas
The End of the Beginning 1973, 122x170cm oil on canvas	Rhonda's Bird 1974, 32x55cm mixed media on board	Untitled 1976	African Images 1980, 31x50cm gouache and watercolor with gold leaf on wove paper	Time Cycle III 1981, 122x122cm embossed bark cloth	Spring Scrolls 1983-1984, 128x182cm acrylic on canvas, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art	Jacob's Ladder 1984, 66x59cm mixed media on paper	The Ceremony 1989, 80x47cm	Composition II 1997, 53x69cm acrylic on paper
Nexus 2001, 365x1585cm aluminum mounted on granite wall, mounted on the Wall of Representation at the Embassy of Ethiopia in Washington, D.C.	Anathamy of the Hunt 1996	Ancient Fogs 1975, 152x127cm oil on canvas, Ridgley Collection	Ghosts of the Atlantic Ocean 1964, opaque watercolor, acrylic, and ink on paper board 71x101cm, Hampton University Museum, VA	Hallucination 1961 National Museum of African Art	Homage to Abebe Bekila 1984	The Wait	Untitled	Untitled
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