Achieng Oduya (b. 1979)
Kendu Bay, Noon, 2019
Oil on canvas
120 × 180 cm
Estimate KES 700,000–1,000,000
Bidding
Sold
KES 1,100,000
Hammer price. Buyer's premium of 20% and VAT on the premium are added.
About the work
The lake at noon, when the light flattens everything: a pale gold sky, a white band of glare and a strip of blue-green water.
Condition
Excellent.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist.
The artist
Oduya grew up in Kisumu and has painted Lake Victoria for twenty years, almost always from the shore and almost always at the edges of the day. Her paintings reduce the lake to bands of colour, built up in thin layers and scraped back so that earlier light shows through. She works in a converted garage in Lavington and returns to the lake every few months to make small gouache studies.
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