Lot
10
Grace Wekesa (b. 1974)
Listener II, 2018
Bronze with brown patina
52 × 24 × 27 cm · Edition 1 of 6
Estimate KES 1,400,000–2,000,000
Bidding
Sold
KES 1,500,000
Hammer price. Buyer's premium of 20% and VAT on the premium are added.
About the work
A later Listener head, longer and narrower than the first, tilted back as if hearing something above.
Condition
Excellent.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist.
The artist
Wekesa models heads in clay and casts them in bronze in small editions, finished with brown and green patinas that she builds up over weeks. The faces are elongated and calm, with closed eyes, as if listening or asleep. Her Listener series, begun in 2014, is her best known, and the heads are rarely offered for sale.
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