Painting by Chris Ofili to be auctioned for first time and expected to fetch up to £1.5m | Chris Ofili

Turner award -winning British artist Chris Ofili is an important work of the use of Elephant Dung, for the first time in Christie’s in October.

It is estimated that a portrait created a year before the first black artist who won the Turner award in 1998 in 1998 (1997) will sell £ 1 million to £ 1.5 million. The piece blends the sacred iconography with popular culture and African symbolism using the signed materials of Ofili’s glitter, resin and elephant manure.

“This is one of the most exciting paintings I’ve worked with for a long time. Ofili’s works are rarely large -scale works to auction.”

Ofili’s official, Scottish painter Peter Doig will be presented with four works to be presented at the auction for the first time: Ski jacket, country rock, concrete cabin and wound. Other important works in the collection include Jean-Michel Basquiat 1981-82 and Hon (She) by Danish artist Karin Mamma Anderson.

He was born in Ofi Manchester and of Nigerian origin. He studied at Chelsea Art College and Royal Art College. In 2003, Ofili represented England in the Venice Biennial. Between London, New York and Trinidad.

Blossom was exhibited in 2010 as part of the middle career retrospective in Tate Britain, the most comprehensive demonstration of Ofili’s work to date. It was also included in the 2014-15 survey in the New Museum in New York.

The painting is based on the traditional ideas of the mother and child, depicts a woman with an open chest, crowned with an orange flower placed in Afro. On the left side, Blossom, the title of the picture, is syllabed vertically written in the spheres of elephant manure.

“The surface is extraordinary, Lord Lord said. “There are almost Pointilist textured points all over the surface and resin, whose layers are really beautiful.”

Lord Lord is a “important year” in the artist’s career, Lord Lord said. The 1997 Solo Exhibition, which was exhibited at the Southampton City Art Gallery of Ofili, the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, was nominated for the Oner Prize in 1998.

In addition to being the first black artist to win the award, Ofili has been the first painter for more than ten years. “Previously it was quite conceptual, so ofili really represents the power of the British picture in the 90s and early 2000s.”

The collection belongs to Ole Faarup, a Danish design entrepreneur and philanthropist who bought Blossom in 1997. The entire collection was collected for a period of 50 years. All revenues will go to Ole Faarup Art Foundation, which aims to support young Danish artists by placing their works in museums around the world.

Lord, the masterpieces in the collection are the works of two British artists, ”Lord said. Ofili and Doig had a “personal connection .. First, he met as students at Chelsea College Art College, and later he would stay with the Ofisi in Trinidad in the early 2000s, which inspired the wound that was ready to auction in the collection.

Ofili’s style is often considered “Punk Art ve and is influenced by artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Philip Guston. His work drew attention to the ruthlessness and provocation of elephant manure and pornographic images, especially for frequent use of pornographic images.

In 1998, the Holy Virgin Mary’s picture drew a debate with a black Madonna depiction of images from Blaxploitation films and pornographic magazines. Christie’s sold £ 2.9 million.

“When we sold the Holy Mary since 2015, we haven’t had such a thing or a job of quality,” Lord said.