Waiting, Entebbe Road, 2022. Acrylic on canvas.
Lot 10

Harriet Nalubega (b. 1985)

Waiting, Entebbe Road, 2022

Acrylic on canvas

100 × 80 cm

Estimate KES 550,000–800,000

Bidding

Sold

KES 480,000

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

How bidding works

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  1. KES 480,000 Paddle 120 In the room 23:53
  2. KES 460,000 Paddle 427 In the room 23:53
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  9. KES 320,000 Paddle 168 In the room 23:53
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About the work

Two women wait on a bench in a pharmacy on the Entebbe road, under a wall of rose-pink tiles. Their dresses, one green and one striped, are painted as flatly as the tiles, so that the whole room becomes one woven surface.

Condition

Very good.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist, 2022; private collection, Nairobi.

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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