‡Joy Adamson (Austrian 1910-1980)

‡Joy Adamson (Austrian 1910-1980)

Portrait of Roba Boru

Signed JOY (lower right) and inscribed ROBA BORU/WUARA MELKA LONI/BORAN-JELITU (lower left)

Watercolour heightened with bodycolour

51.3 x 34.4cm

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