Lot 35
Paul Ndema
Ugandan, born 1979
Jane the Baptist, 2014
Signed ‘NDEMA 2014’ lower right
Oil on canvas
100 x 100cm
KES 90,000 – 115,000
USD 1,000 – 1,300
Provenance: direct from the artist
Sold KES 164,360
Ndema studied at the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts, Makerere University from 1999-2002 where he obtained his Bachelors in Fine Arts. He has exhibited widely in Uganda mainly at Afriart Gallery in Kampala.
Ndema’s depictions of multifarious people, ornamental objects and expressive animals are at once comforting and ominous. He is influenced by a diverse heritage of art history from Gustav Klimt to contemporary East African artists; his works on paper, paintings and assemblages are infused with potent symbolism and a sense of mystery and magic.