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Umber sells modern and contemporary East African art and collectable design: live from the rostrum in Nairobi, and online in sales that close lot by lot. Register in a minute and bid from your phone.
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Lot 8 · Modern & Contemporary East African Art
Estimate KES 2,400,000–3,400,000
Works on Paper & Photographs
Lots close one every two minutes from today at 21:30
Design: Furniture, Lighting & Objects
Lots close one every two minutes from today at 22:00
Modern & Contemporary East African Art
Today at 21:45 · Umber House and online
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Artist in focus
Achieng Oduya: twenty years of one lake
Oduya grew up in Kisumu and has painted Lake Victoria for twenty years, almost always from the shore and almost always at the edges of the day. Her paintings reduce the lake to bands of colour, built up in thin layers and scraped back so that earlier light shows through. She works in a converted garage in Lavington and returns to the lake every few months to make small gouache studies.
“The lake is never the same colour twice, so I never run out of it.”
Works by Achieng Oduya-
Juma Mwakalinga Market Women, Mwenge Sale 3024 · Lot 7 · Estimate KES 1,600,000–2,400,000 KES 2,300,000
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Grace Wekesa Head of a Sleeper Sale 3024 · Lot 6 · Estimate KES 1,200,000–1,800,000 KES 1,650,000
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Grace Wekesa Listener II Sale 3024 · Lot 10 · Estimate KES 1,400,000–2,000,000 KES 1,500,000
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Yonas Gebremeskel Field Notes VI Sale 3024 · Lot 12 · Estimate KES 900,000–1,300,000 KES 1,400,000
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Yonas Gebremeskel Field Notes II Sale 3024 · Lot 4 · Estimate KES 1,000,000–1,500,000 KES 1,250,000
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Achieng Oduya Kendu Bay, Noon Sale 3024 · Lot 5 · Estimate KES 700,000–1,000,000 KES 1,100,000
Selling with Umber
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Send us photographs and what you know of a painting, a sculpture or a piece of design, and a specialist will tell you what it might fetch and which sale suits it. Our commission is agreed with you before anything is catalogued.
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Umber House, Lenana Road
Every lot can be seen at Umber House before it is sold. Viewing is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 18:00, and our specialists are there to take a work off the wall for you.
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