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This all-over printed notebook features one of Kehinde Wiley’s early works from the series Conspicuous Fraud, a group of paintings which emphasize and explore the beauty of natural black hair. The Conspicuous Fraud Series #1 (Eminence) Notebook draws inspiration from Wiley’s artwork of the same name, made by the artist while he was in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2001. Twisting and turning through the sky, the contours of the subject’s oversized Afro hairdo transform into clouds, confusing the relationship of the subject and the background of the picture.Notebook7.4 x 9.8 x .75 inchesMade in Germany Net proceeds from your purchase support the artist in residence program Black Rock Sénégal, founded by Wiley in 2019.

This hardcover notebook features Kehinde Wiley’s 2013 painting Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, reimagined from Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s 1605 painting of the same name. Both the pose of Wiley’s model, as well as the background pattern (William Morris) were both sourced from the artistic traditions of Jamaica's former colonizer. Jamaica's brutal history of colonization, slavery, and forced migrations positions it as a perfect subject matter for Wiley’s methodical, role-reversing portraiture oeuvre. Ivory-colored paper (70g/m2, acid free Plain pages). Hardcover with elastic closure and rounded corners. Dimensions: 6"w x 8.25"d x .5"h. Net proceeds from your purchase support the artist in residence program Black Rock Sénégal, founded by Wiley in 2019. ...

This notebook features Kehinde Wiley’s 2022 painting titled The Death of Hyacinth (Ndey Buri Mboup), first exhibited in Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence at Foundazione Giorgio Cini in 2022, as a collateral event of the 59th international art exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Expanding on Kehinde Wiley's body of work DOWN from 2008, which was initially inspired by Hans Holbein the Younger's The Dead Christ in the Tomb as well as historical paintings and sculptures of fallen warriors and figures in the state of repose, Wiley created an unsettling series of prone Black bodies, re-conceptualizing classical pictorial forms to create a contemporary version of monumental portraiture, resounding with violence, pain, and death, as well as ecstasy. Ivory-colored paper (70g/m2, acid free plain pages). Hard cover elastic closure and rounded corners. Dimensions: 6"w x 8.25"d x .5"h. Net proceeds from your purchase support the artist in residence program Black Rock Sénégal, founded......

This hardcover notebook features Kehinde Wiley’s 2009 painting Fall, from The World Stage: Brazil series. Models were sourced locally, from the surrounding Rio de Janeiro area, some of which were recruited at Petrobras Espaco Cultural Nos do moro, a non-profit school for the Arts where many actors from the 2003 Academy Award nominated film City of God were discovered. Ivory-colored paper (70g/m2, acid free plain pages). Hardcover with elastic closure and rounded corners. Dimensions: 6"w x 8.25"d x .5"h. Net proceeds from your purchase support the artist in residence program Black Rock Sénégal, founded by Wiley in 2019.

This exclusive notebook showcases Kehinde Wiley's 2005 painting, Investiture of Bishop Harold as the Duke of Franconia, commissioned by Spike Lee. The painting depicts a Black man adorned in a Brooklyn Dodgers jersey bearing the number 42—a homage to Jackie Robinson. Wiley's artistic approach seamlessly intertwines with art history, as evidenced by the title's reference to an 18th-century Giambattista Tiepolo painting. The piece not only pays tribute to Robinson, but also resonates with Spike Lee's iconic 1989 film "Do The Right Thing," where the protagonist, Mookie, dons the same jersey. Ivory-colored paper (70g/m2, acid free plain pages). Hard cover elastic closure and rounded corners. Dimensions: 6"w x 8.25"d x .5"h. Net proceeds from your purchase support the artist in residence program Black Rock Sénégal, founded by Wiley in 2019. ...