Modern & Contemporary African Art | and CCA Lagos Benefit Auction
Modern & Contemporary African Art | and CCA Lagos Benefit Auction
Signor Abebe
Lot Closed
March 22, 05:03 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Louis Mwaniki
Kenyan
1934-2013
Signor Abebe
signed and dated 1962 (lower left); titled (on the reverse)
oil on board
93 by 49cm., 36½ by 19¼in.
framed: 91 by 47cm., 35¾ by 18½in.
Private Collection, Edinburgh
Louis Mwaniki was one of Nairobi’s leading artists in the 1960s and 1970s. Another graduate of Makerere University College where he studied 1957-1961, he was a professor, sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Born in 1934 in Nyeri, Kenya, he studied in Turin, Italy, from 1961 to 1963, where the present lot was painted. Returning to teach at the University of Nairobi, he left again in 1967 to study in Montreal, Canada, for two years. Later, with a doctorate in art education from New York University, he returned to Nairobi, where he taught fine art at University of Nairobi's Kenyatta College until 2010.