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Collecting Passions - Art from the New Millennium from an Important Private Collection

Michael Armitage

Mpeketoni

Auction Closed

May 16, 01:17 AM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Collecting Passions - Art from the New Millennium from an Important Private Collection

Michael Armitage

b. 1984

Mpeketoni

signed, titled and dated 2014 (on the reverse)

oil on Lubugo bark cloth

77 by 59 in.

195.6 by 149.9 cm.

Executed in 2015.

White Cube, London

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2015)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Charlotte Jansen, "Nairobi-Born Artist Michael Armitage on LGBTQ Rights in Kenya and Misconceptions of Contemporary African Art," Artsy, 17 June 2016, illustrated in color (online)

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, "Michael Armitage and Kudzanai-Violet Hwami on Painting," Ocula Magazine, 15 November 2019 (text) (online)

London, White Cube, Michael Armitage: Inside the White Cube, April - July 2015, p. 6, illustrated in color and p. 33 (text)

Leeds Art Gallery; Plymouth, The Levinsky Gallery, The Arts Institute; The Edge, University of Bath, and the Bath School of Art and Design; Inverness Museum and Art Gallery and Thurso Gallery, Slow Painting, October 2019 - October 2020, fig. 8, p. 33, illustrated in color and p. 153 (text)