Lot 51

Samuel Githui (Kenyan, born 1973)
King Midas Golden Touch, 1999
Signed ‘S.K. Githui 99’ (lower right)
Oil on paper
42.5 x 34 cm
KES 130,000 – 190,000
(US$) 1,040 – 1,520
Provenance: From the artist’s collection

Samuel Githui has been drawing from a young age, since he was about five or six years old. He has always paid close attention to his surroundings, and his impressions of the spaces, people and events around him are the material for his artwork. Githui relies on his observation of typical events to investigate societal shifts, politics, and the lives of people working to make their place in a world that does not always work in their favour.

Githui has exhibited widely throughout East Africa as well as in Germany and Italy and is represented in both private and institutional collections.