Woman on a Forest Path

Ben Enwonwu MBE was a pioneer of African modernism. He was born in 1917 in Onitsha, eastern Nigeria, to a mother who ran a successful textile business and a father who was a retired technical assistant and reputable sculptor, from whom the artist learned his early carving skills. Despite being widely celebrated as a painter and sculptor, Enwonwu was also a distinguished writer and art critic.

Onitsha, Nigeria