Msasani, Last Bus, 2024. Oil on linen.
Lot 4

Zawadi Mrema (b. 1991)

Msasani, Last Bus, 2024

Oil on linen

100 × 130 cm

Estimate KES 450,000–650,000

Bidding

Sold

KES 440,000

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

How bidding works

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About the work

An empty bus shelter on the Msasani road after the last bus has gone, lit by a single sodium lamp. Mrema builds the orange light in thin glazes over a ground of deep teal, so the shelter glows while the road around it falls away into the dark.

Condition

Excellent.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by the present owner, 2024.

The artist

Mrema paints Dar es Salaam after midnight: empty bus stops, ferry ramps, the sodium glow of a petrol station on an empty road. She works in thin glazes of oil on linen, so that her orange lights seem to sit on the surface while the teal shadows sink into it. Her first sale at Umber, in September 2026, set a record for the artist.

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