Yonas Gebremeskel (b. 1968)
Field Notes II, 2016
Oil and wax on canvas
120 × 120 cm
Estimate KES 1,000,000–1,500,000
Bidding
Sold
KES 1,250,000
Hammer price. Buyer's premium of 20% and VAT on the premium are added.
About the work
An early square Field Notes, its grid weighted towards indigo, with a single band of red cells running across the lower third.
Condition
Very good.
Provenance
Private collection, Nairobi.
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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