Selected paintings of performers, horsemen and a chief from Niamey and Maradi, in the modern-day Republic of the Niger, by Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff, c. 1925 - 1927.

Selected paintings of performers, horsemen and a chief from Niamey and Maradi, in the modern-day Republic of the Niger, by Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff, c. 1925 - 1927.

Jacovleff was a Russian neoclassicist painter, draughtsman, designer and etcher. “Between 1924 and 1925 he took part in an expedition to the Sahara desert and Equatorial Africa organized by Citroën (Croisière Noire).”