A Black Heaven / Sam Ovraiti / Solitude

Solitude

Sam Ovraiti · Painting · 20 x 29 in · $1,444

The price and the seller's listing on this page were last read on 3 September 2026. We re-check past 21 days.

Artist · Sam Ovraiti

Gallery · Hourglass Gallery / Yellow Adire

City · Lagos

Ships from · Nigeria

US duty · Chapter 97, duty-free

Three separate works on this shop are called Solitude. This is the 2021 one.

What the gallery's page does not tell you. Leaving Nigeria: no export permit needed. On arrival in the United States this is an original work of art under Chapter 97 of the tariff schedule and enters free of duty, and the 12.5% forced-labour duty that has applied to Nigeria since 24 July 2026 does not reach it either, under the informational-materials subheading. At 74cm on its longest side this is checked-baggage size in a hard tube or case if it is unstretched, and a crate if it is not. At $1,444 it sits in the middle of what Lagos galleries publish online.

Buy from Hourglass Gallery / Yellow Adire

We do not sell this work and take nothing from its sale. The price above is the gallery's, read on its own page on 15 September 2026; the gallery can change it at any time and the figure it shows today is the one that counts.

Getting it home

No export permit neededNigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments Act reaches antiquities: archaeological material, relics of early Nigerian civilisation, work made before 1918, and objects of traditional art used in religious or ceremonial life. A new canvas by a living artist is none of those and leaves as ordinary goods. Take a dated invoice naming the artist, the year, the medium and the dimensions. Exporters routinely ask the Commission for a written no-objection anyway — it costs little and settles the argument at the airport rather than at the gate.

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