Lot 36

Richard Kimathi (Kenyan, born 1971)
Raven and Friend (from the monkey series), 2010
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘RICHARD KIMATHI’10’ (lower right)
Oil on canvas
120.5 x 120 cm
KES 300,000 – 600,000
(US$) 2,400 – 4,800
Provenance: Private collection

Richard Kimathi’s inventive and thought-provoking practice has established him as one of the region’s most respected contemporary painters. He is at the forefront of Kenya’s second generation of post-Independence artists, many of whom emerged from Kuona Trust Centre for Visual Arts in the mid to late nineties.

Kimathi has exhibited widely, with solo exhibitions at One Off Gallery, Nairobi, the USA and Spain. In 2014, he showed in London at GAFRA, Cork Street. He was selected to represent Kenya in the Dak’Art Biennale in 2006, has attended residencies in the USA and Pakistan and is in some major art collections locally and internationally.