This is the first scholarly monograph and most comprehensive documentation to date of the work of Yusuf Grillo (b. 1934) the influential Nigerian modernist painter, inaugural president of the Society of Nigerian Artists and founding director of School of Art, Design and Printing at the famous Yaba College of Technology, Lagos.Written by Chika Okeke-Agulu, the award-winning art historian and critic, and profusely illustrated in full colour, this book provides an unprecedented historical overview and critical examination of the Grillo's place within the history of 20th-century Nigerian art. Through persuasive reading of the artist's work, it argues that Grillo is incomparable among his peers in his vigorous, career-long engagement with the problem of colour and painting.