Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou
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Artist Leonce Raphael AgbodjelouBeninese, born 1965

CultureBeninese

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Untitled
from the series Musclemen

Date2012, printed 2019

MediumChromogenic print

DimensionsImage: 59 1/16 × 39 3/8 in. (150 × 100 cm)
Sheet: 63 × 43 5/16 in. (160 × 110 cm)
Frame: 64 × 44 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (162.5 × 113 × 6.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Yossi Milo Gallery and museum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern, Jereann Chaney, and Clare A. Glassell

Object number2020.6

Not on view

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Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Description“I think about a story. Then I start thinking about its realization, the character, how it is dressed, the setting, and then at the end I create my artwork,” declared Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. A mysterious narrative is suggested by Agbodjelou’s photograph from his Musclemen series. The three men are surrounded by bright, colorful patterns and posed next to a stool adorned with a blooming pink bouquet. The disparity between hard bodies and soft flowers, masculine and feminine elements, and menace and magnetism makes Agbodjelou’s imagined account both complex and captivating.
Provenance[Yossi Milo Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Exhibition History"Through an African Lens: Sub-Saharan Photography from the Museum's Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 27–November 8, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Printed and inscribed with black and blue ink on applied label, mount verso, lower right: Title: MUSCLEMEN // SERIES // Date: 2012 // Edition: 5/6 // (00431) // Signature: AGBODJELOU F. Leonce // JACK BELL GALLERY // 13 MASONS YARD, LONDON SW1Y 6BU // WWW.JACKBELLGALLERY.COM

Signed in blue ink on applied label, mount verso, lower right: AGBODJELOU F. Leonce

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