Rusinga, Afternoon Rain, 2023. Oil on canvas.
Lot 9

Achieng Oduya (b. 1979)

Rusinga, Afternoon Rain, 2023

Oil on canvas

120 × 160 cm

Estimate KES 750,000–1,100,000

Bidding

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KES 700,000

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

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About the work

Rain moving across the lake towards Rusinga Island in the late afternoon, painted as a grey-green veil drawn down over bands of ochre and slate. Oduya scraped the rain into the wet paint with the edge of a board.

Condition

Excellent.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by the present owner, 2023.

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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