Lot 44
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
KES 550,000 – 750,000
USD 5,600 – 7,650
Provenance: direct from the artist
Sold KES 587,000
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.