Mkeka (Saffron), 2021. Screenprint in three colours on paper.
Lot 8

Fatuma Noor (b. 1984)

Mkeka (Saffron), 2021

Screenprint in three colours on paper

70 × 70 cm · From the edition of 25

Estimate KES 70,000–100,000

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KES 140,000

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About the work

The interlocking chevrons of a woven palm mat, enlarged until each strand is as wide as a hand, printed in saffron, black and a sea turquoise.

Condition

Excellent.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by the present owner, 2021.

The artist

Noor's screenprints take the patterns of woven palm mats, the mikeka her grandmother made in Garissa, and enlarge them into bold flat fields of colour. She prints in three or four colours at most, saffron, black and a sea turquoise among them, and pulls each edition by hand.

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