A richly textured carborundum composition by Georges Adingra, titled Les 3 Rois (“The Three Kings”), presenting a compact yet striking arrangement of stylised figures rendered in earthy reds, ochres and deep charcoal tones.
Born in Ivory Coast in 1933, Adingra is widely described as having come from a royal or chiefly lineage, a background that placed him within a strong cultural and symbolic tradition from an early age. Like many artists of his generation, he left West Africa for Paris in the 1950s, then the centre of modern artistic education and exhibition. There he absorbed European modernist influences while continuing to draw from African ritual imagery and symbolic figuration, developing the distinctive tactile surfaces that characterise much of his work.
In Les 3 Rois, the granular carborundum medium gives the painting a near-relief quality — pigment and grit combining to create a surface that catches light and shadow in equal measure. Figures emerge through gestural black linework and layered colour fields, evoking both ritual presence and modernist abstraction.
Despite its modest scale, the piece carries remarkable visual weight, reading almost as an artefact — something unearthed rather than simply painted. The intimate format lends itself equally to hanging alone or as part of a wider salon arrangement.
Signed and titled by the artist.
Details
• Artist: Georges Adingra (1933–2005)
• Title: Les 3 Rois
• Medium: Carborundum on canvas
• Signed and titled
• Framed
• Height: 24.5 cm
• Width: 15 cm
• Good vintage condition consistent with age
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