Iba Ndiaye
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Iba Ndiaye (Saint-Louis, Senegal, 1928) is a French-Senegalese painter.
When he was 15 years old, he studied in Lycée Faidherbe and painted posters for cinemas and places in his town. He went to Paris in 1948, where he started architecture in École des Beaux-Arts and he went to jazz sessions and more artistic events. The sculptor Zadkine introduced him the traditional African sculpture and he travelled throughout Europe.
1959 Senegalese independence forced him to come back to Senegal and he took part in the foundation of École des Arts du Sénégal, where he made an exhibition in 1962 and he worked as a teacher until 1966.
In la Ruche atelier, he made the oils about ritual slaughter of lamp, he exhibited them in Sarlat in 1970 and in Amiens in 1974.
He made exhibitions in 1981 in New York; in 1987 in Museum für Völkerkunde from Munch; in 1989 in Holland; in 1990 in Tampere; in 1996 in Museum Paleis Lange Voorhout in The Hague; in 2000 in his birth town; etc.
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