Water Tanks, Eastleigh, 2024. Ink and watercolour on paper.
Lot 2

Wangui Kariuki (b. 1995)

Water Tanks, Eastleigh, 2024

Ink and watercolour on paper

38 × 56 cm

Estimate KES 45,000–70,000

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KES 47,500

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About the work

Black and blue plastic water tanks crowd a rooftop in Eastleigh, with a line of washing and the corrugated roofs beyond. Drawn on the roof itself in an afternoon, with a quick pen line under pale, open washes and much of the paper left bare.

Condition

Excellent.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by the present owner, 2024.

The artist

Kariuki paints Nairobi's rooftops in watercolour: water tanks, satellite dishes, washing lines and the corrugated iron between them. She works in pale, open washes, leaving much of the paper bare, and paints from the roofs themselves with permission from caretakers across Eastleigh and South B.

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