Lot 28 Edward Njenga
Lot 28 Edward Njenga
Edward Njenga (Kenyan, born 1922)
Garbage Collector, 1999
Signed ‘E S N’ (on sculpture)
Terracotta
49 x 18 x 29 cm
Ksh 500,000-600,000
(US$ 4,670-5,600)
Bought in
Provenance: direct from the artist
Garbage Collector depicts a worker from the rubbish collection company called Scamel, which, in the 1960s, sent trucks every Thursday to the neighbourhoods. Men would run ahead and collect the metal bins which they would empty into the trucks and children would call them ‘camels’.