Lot
12
Yonas Gebremeskel (b. 1968)
Field Notes VI, 2018
Oil and wax on canvas
100 × 100 cm
Estimate KES 900,000–1,300,000
Bidding
Sold
KES 1,400,000
Hammer price. Buyer's premium of 20% and VAT on the premium are added.
About the work
A Field Notes in which the bone-white cells crowd out the colour, leaving islands of red and indigo.
Condition
Very good.
Provenance
Private collection, Addis Ababa.
The artist
Gebremeskel's Field Notes, begun in 2009, are grids of small hand-ruled rectangles in earth red, indigo and bone, painted in oil and sealed with wax, then scraped and repainted many times over. He describes them as maps of fields seen from a plane window. The series now runs to more than forty paintings, few of which have come to auction.
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