The Blue Room, 2020. Acrylic on canvas.
Lot 3

Harriet Nalubega (b. 1985)

The Blue Room, 2020

Acrylic on canvas

120 × 100 cm

Estimate KES 700,000–1,000,000

Bidding

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KES 900,000

Hammer price. Buyer's premium of 20% and VAT on the premium are added.

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About the work

A woman in a marigold dress sits with her back to us in an armchair, in a sitting room painted entirely in cobalt: walls, curtains and the patterned cloth of the chair are all the same intense blue, divided only by pattern. Painted in the first months of 2020, it is one of the largest of Nalubega's interiors.

Condition

Very good. Unvarnished, as the artist intended.

Provenance

Private collection, Kampala; by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

Kampala, Rooms, a group exhibition, 2021.

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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