Louis Mwaniki

Acquired directly from the artist, Nairobi c.1964-1967

Thence by direct descent

Louis Mwaniki was one of Nairobi’s leading artists in the 1960s and 1970s. A 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. Returning to teach at the University of Nairobi, where the present lot was likely painted, 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.