Photographer: Sidibé, Malick (1936 – 2016).
Title: Amoureux au Studio.
Date: 1965-1976 (printed and signed in 2002).
Country: Mali.
Medium: unmounted gelatin silver print.
Size: 29,7 x 23,6 cm (image 23,7 x 16,9 cm).
Condition: excellent.
Reference: MSV11/1.
Provenance: Olivier Sultan, Galerie ART-Z, Paris.
Extra: Recto signed in ink with negative and print date and artist's name in his hand on print.
Malick Sidibé was born in Soloba, a Fulani village in Mali and is world-famous for his black-and-white photography of popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s in Bamako, the capital of Mali.
His photographs are a fantastic chronicle of the unrestrained optimism and joie de vivre of the Malian youth in Bamako after independence.