Lot 28
Edward Njenga
Kenyan, born 1922
Garbage Collector, 1999
Signed ‘E S N’ (on sculpture)
Terracotta
49 x 18 x 29 cm
KES 500,000 – 600,000
USD 4,670 – 5,600
Provenance: direct from the artist
Bought in
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’.