Lot 41

Peter Elungat

Kenyan, born 1978

Kneeling Woman, circa 2000

Signed ‘P, S, Elungat’ (lower right)

Oil on board

25.8 x 20.1 cm

KES 100,000 – 180,000

USD 950 – 1,650

Provenance: private collection

Sold KES 176,100

Growing up in Western Kenya, Peter Elungat was just a child when he began drawing. In 1997 he joined Kuona Trust Museum Art Studio, Nairobi and attended numerous workshops where he developed his painting.

Elungat’s paintings of his single female figure Angelina, created in the style of the major Renaissance painters, continue to captivate an audience of both local and international collectors.

Elungat tends to work on large-scale canvases, making this rare, stylised oil on board in muted tones a very unusual work. Elungat has exhibited in Canada, Singapore and the UK and his work is in many corporate collections in Kenya.