Romuald Hazoumé

Romuald Hazoumé (born in Porto Novo, 1962) is an artist from the Republic of Bénin,[1] best known for his work La Bouche du Roi, a reworking of the 1789 image of the slave ship Brookes.[2]

La Bouche du Roi was widely exhibited in the United Kingdom as part of the centenary remembrance of the Slave Trade Act 1807 by Parliament.

Hazoumé is among the artists represented in the collection of Jean Pigozzi.[3]

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