Harriet Nalubega (b. 1985)
Afternoon, Ntinda, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 100 cm
Estimate KES 450,000–650,000
Bidding
Sold
KES 500,000
Hammer price. Buyer's premium of 20% and VAT on the premium are added.
About the work
A woman reads in a chair by a window in Ntinda, the curtains, the chair and her dress all printed with the same marigold flower.
Condition
Very good.
Provenance
Private collection, Kampala.
The artist
Nalubega paints women in rooms: sitting rooms, waiting rooms, the back rooms of salons. Walls, curtains and dresses are all given the same weight, so that her figures sit inside a field of pattern and saturated colour. She trained as a textile designer before she turned to painting, and still begins every picture with a strip of fabric pinned beside the canvas.
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