Masterpieces

of

African

Art

Head

to

Tate,

Courtesy

Collectors

Jorge

and

Darlene

Pérez

Jorge M. and Darlene Pérez have gifted Tate 36 works by artists from Africa and its diaspora. It’s the second time the married collectors have made a high-profile donation to the museum network in the past year, having previously given Tate a large-scale Joan Mitchell painting.

The artworks in the gift are by an intergenerational range of artists, spanning Seydou Keïta, a Malian photographer born in the 1920s, to Joy Labinjo, a rising British painter of Nigerian descent who was born in 1994.

In some cases, Tate has already made a significant effort to spotlight artists included in the gift. Rotimi Fani-Kayode, the late Nigeria-born, England-based photographer, was already well-represented in the Tate collection, as was J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere, a Nigerian photographer with work currently on view in Tate Modern’s “Nigerian Modernism” survey.