Lot 41

Anthony Okello

Kenyan, born 1976

Bird Watchers at Maragwa, 2004

Signed ‘Okello.04’ (lower middle)

Oil on canvas

122 x 91.5cm

KES 120,000 – 170,000

USD 1,350 – 1,950

Provenance: private collection

Sold KES 305,240

Anthony Okello’s works over the last 5 years have characteristically been allegorical compositions with a cast of animal and human forms playing out mythologies collected from local communities. In his recent series of work there is a move towards a more personal mythology. Okello was born in Kenya and studied art at the Buru Buru Institute of Fine Art before moving to Kuona Trust in 2004. His work is included in various private and corporate collections such as PwC and Afren PLC. His work has been published in ‘World Art Collection – 1001 reasons to love the art’ and he has exhibited in Kenya, India and France.