Elias Thuo (1949–2011)
Market Day, Gikomba, 1982
Linocut printed in black on paper
45 × 60 cm · From the edition of 25
Estimate KES 70,000–110,000
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About the work
The second-hand clothes market at Gikomba on a Saturday, a crowd of shoppers and sellers pressed between stalls hung with shirts. Every figure is cut with the same quick, confident line.
Condition
Good. A small repaired tear in the lower margin, well clear of the image.
Provenance
Private collection, Nairobi.
The artist
Thuo cut linoleum blocks of Nairobi's crowds for thirty years: matatus packed to the doors, the cloth stalls of Gikomba, queues at the bus station. He printed in black, sometimes with a single second colour, on a hand press in his house in Kaloleni, in editions that rarely went beyond thirty. His prints were sold for years from a table outside the post office on Moi Avenue.
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