Ben Enwonwu

Odinigwe Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu  MBE (bɛ dɔɣi o la silimiingoli July bɛɣu pinaa anahi dali, yuuni  1917 – ka o kani silimiingoli  February dabaanu dali, yuuni  1994), salo mi o la  Ben Enwonwu, o daa nyɛla  Nigeria peenta  ni  sculptor. Bani n daa nyɛ nucheeni tuun tumdi bi ban zali yuli gbansabila tiŋgbana ni yuma 20th daadaa saha.

O tuma nim shɛŋa 

Portrait of Chief Candido Joao Da Rocha (1951) which was exhibited during FESTAC LAGOS 1977
Anyanwu (1954–55): Commissioned for the Nigerian National Museum in Lagos, still in situ. A subsequent full-size version is part of the United Nations Art Collection at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Several smaller editions have been created. 
Bronze statue of Queen Elizabeth II (1956)
Seven sculptures for the Daily Mirror newspaper headquarters (1961)
Sango (1964): the Yoruba god of lightning and thunder
Ogbanje which is currently exhibited at Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art  (1967)
Christine (1967):  Sold in 2019 for $1.4 million.  
Tutu (1973)
Risen Christ (1986): was displayed University of Ibadan but was torched as a result of a political-religious tensions

Enwonwu's work is displayed in the National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. 

His works can also be viewed at the Virtual Museum of Modern Nigerian Art .

O kpaŋmaŋ pina nima
 1944 – Shell Petroleum scholarship: to study in the United Kingdom
 1954 – National Merit Award: for academic and intellectual attainment in Nigeria
 1958 – Commonwealth Certificate in London: for contributions to art by the Royal Institute of Art
 1958 – Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE)
 1971 – Officer of the National Order of the Republic in Senegal
 1980 – National Order of Merit in Nigeria: for contributions to art in Nigeria

Maan lihi pahi
 List of Igbo people

Kundivihira

External links
 Andrea Estrada, "Art Historian Publishes Monograph on Ben Enwonwu", 93106, Vol. 19, No. 11, 23 February 2009, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Category:1917 births
Category:1994 deaths
Category:20th-century male artists
Category:20th-century Nigerian painters
Category:20th-century Nigerian sculptors
Category:20th-century Nigerian male artists
Category:Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
Category:Alumni of Ruskin College
Category:Artists from Onitsha
Category:Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Category:Government College Umuahia alumni
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Category:Academic staff of Obafemi Awolowo University
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