‡Joy Adamson (Austrian 1910-1980)

‡Joy Adamson (Austrian 1910-1980)

Portrait of Lojasa Leakono

Signed JOY (lower left) and inscribed LOJASA LEAKONO/LOROKUCHU-LOIRANGAI/SAMBURU (upper right)

Watercolour heightened with bodycolour

51.5 x 34.5cm

Unframed

Provenance:

Commissioned by the British Government as part of a project to record the twenty-two most important tribes in Kenya;

Purchased from the artist by the previous private collector, c.1955;

And by family descent