Modern British & 20th Century Art - 31st May 2022
Lot 365
‡Joy Adamson (Austrian 1910-1980)
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £380
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Description
‡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