Untitled (Two Women with Thatched Roof House)
1959 · Gelatin silver print, printed 2024
17 × 17" (43.2 × 43.2 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Oumar Ka
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Oumar Ka was a Senegalese painter and sculptor whose practice spanned the post-independence era, engaging with modernist abstraction and figuration across both media. Working from the 1950s onward, he developed a distinctive formal language that navigated between European modernism and African aesthetic traditions. Ka's work remains central to the history of Senegalese visual culture during a period of radical cultural and political transformation.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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