Ruth Kanini Musyoka (b. 1982)
Dry Season Psalm, 2021
Soil pigment and charcoal on raw canvas
150 × 120 cm
Estimate KES 350,000–550,000
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Pale red earth dragged across the canvas in long horizontal strokes, broken by a single black vertical.
Condition
Very good.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist.
The artist
Musyoka makes her own pigment from the red soil of her family's land near Machakos, sieved and bound with acrylic medium, and works it into raw cotton canvas with her hands, rags and charcoal. The large gestural paintings that result read as weather, or as hymns. She has said that the paintings are dry-season pictures even when they are made in the rains.
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