Lot 41

Yiga Matovu (Ugandan, DOB unknown)
Mosque Near Makerere University, circa late 1970s
Unsigned
Oil on paper
16.4 x 24.5 cm
Provenance: Private collection
Sold KES 137,358

Yiga Matovu was an alumnus of the Makerere Art School in the 1970s. In the early 1980s he moved to South Africa, where he remained for a decade working as an art teacher.

Not much is known about his later career.

This lovely painting one of a series of miniature local scenes made around the same period and acquired from Makerere Gallery in the 1970s.