Lot 44 Edward Njenga (front)
Lot 44 Edward Njenga (side)
Edward Njenga (Kenyan, born 1922)
Waiting for Doctor – Eastleigh Clinic, 1969
Signed ‘E. S. NJENGA’ (brass plate on base)
Terracotta
27.5 x 43 x 17 cm
Ksh 550,000 – 750,000
(US$ 5,600-7,650)
Sold Ksh 587,000
Provenance: direct from the artist
Waiting for Doctor – Eastleigh Clinic is from the time Njenga spent in the neighborhood of Eastleigh, where he was a social worker for many years, and would observe the daily queues of patients, waiting from morning to night to be seen by the one doctor, Dr. de Souza.