Harriet Nalubega (b. 1985)
Two Sisters, Kololo, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
110 × 90 cm
Estimate KES 500,000–750,000
Bidding
Sold
KES 680,000
Hammer price. Buyer's premium of 20% and VAT on the premium are added.
About the work
Two sisters sit side by side on a patterned sofa in a house in Kololo, one in emerald and one in rose, against a wall of yellow lattice.
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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