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30/10/2025

ART AUCTION EAST AFRICA 2025| Installation Views

From left to right
Lot 59
Mohammed Morda (Sudanese, born 1983)
A Conversation Among the Old Gods, 2024
Signed ‘Morada 2024’ (lower left)
Ink on canvas
74 x 103.5 cm

Lot 60
Behailu Bezabih (Ethiopian, born 1960)
Untitled (Street Scene), 2004
Signed ‘Behailu’ (lower middle & verso)
Acrylic on canvas
74 x 102 cm

Lot 63
Tiemar Tegene (Ethiopian, born 1993)
What the F***, 2025
Signed ‘Signature’ (lower left)
Monoprint on canvas
70 x 60 cm

Lot 56
Hussain Shariffe (Sudanese, 1934 – 2005)
Untitled, 1988
Signed ‘Shariffe 88.’ (upper left)
Ink on collaged paper
23.5 x 18 cm

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Lot 55
Suzan Ibrahim (Sudanese, born 1974)
Struggle for Survival, 2024
Signed ‘Suzan’ (lower left)
Acrylic on canvas
59.5 x 50.5cm

Provenance: From the artist’s collection

Suzan Ibrahim is a renowned Sudanese artist, educator, and cultural advocate whose work delves into the realms of colour, folklore, and the preservation of Sudanese heritage. Born in 1974 in Khartoum, Sudan, Suzan Ibrahim has built a career marked by her deep commitment to visual art, education, and cultural storytelling.�

Ibrahim completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Sudan University of Science and Technology in 1997, followed by a Higher Diploma in Folklore and a Masters degree in Folklore from the Institute of African and Asian Studies at the University of Khartoum, and she holds a PhD in Colour Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Sudan University of Science and Technology. Ibrahim’s academic foundation has been pivotal in shaping her artistic practice, blending theoretical depth with cultural insight.

Ibrahim’s artistic practice is characterized by a vibrant fusion of Sudanese cultural themes and contemporary techniques. Her artwork often incorporates traditional motifs with modern interpretations, resulting in visually compelling pieces that reflect her cultural heritage and artistic vision. Through her exhibitions, teaching, and community engagement, Suzan Ibrahim has become a leading figure in the Sudanese art scene, influencing both her peers and emerging artists.�Ibrahim’s continued dedication to art and education ensures her legacy as both an artist and an educator will resonate for years to come, contributing significantly to the future of Sudanese art and its place on the global stage.

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Lot 54
Miska Mohammed (Sudanese, born 1995)
The Movement of Daisies, 2021
Signed ‘Miska’ (lower left)
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 150 cm

Provenance: Private collection

Miska Mohmmed works predominantly in oils and acrylics, exploring the sensual experience of landscape. Mohmmed trained as a painter and, for a long time, practised painting en plein air, guided by her experience of nature, atmosphere, and the movement and bustle of crowded spaces. Mohmmed renders landscapes as semi-abstract compositions built up using sweeping horizontal lines, whose direction, colour, and varying density approximate the terrains from which they are drawn.

Mohmmed received a BFA in painting from the College of Fine and Applied Arts, Sudan University in 2016. She has participated in workshops and exhibitions in Kenya, Sudan, and Tunisia, including a joint exhibition at the Rashid Diab Arts Centre in Khartoum (2017), and Khartoum Contemporary, at the Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya (2017). She had also participated in, and painted murals for the Burrullus International Symposium in Cairo, and in Tunisia.

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Lot 53
Salah Elmur (Sudanese, born 1966)
Untitled I and Untitled II, 2000
Signed ‘S.ALMUR.2000’ and ‘S.ALMUR 2000’ (lower left)
Mixed media on found paper
16.5 x 11 cm (both)

Provenance: Private collection

Salah Elmur is a contemporary Sudanese painter, graphic designer, author, and filmmaker. He is currently based in Cairo, Egypt. Elmur studied Graphic Design at the College of Fine and Applied Art at Sudan University, Khartoum. Elmur’s artwork is composed of a fertile visual vocabulary that draws on scenes, situations and impressions recalled from his life, reaching back to childhood. Inspired by the many photographs he collected from his family’s photography studio, Elmur’s compositions emulate formal portraits, with additional elements that complement but also unsettle the mood of his paintings. Plants and animals share the frame with human subjects, limbs are shortened, and proportions are distorted, altering the relationships between various objects and figures. These elements are combined in a somewhat surrealistic swirl of memory, and the resulting paintings are tender, intimate vignettes.

With a career spanning three decades, Elmur has exhibited in participated in group and solo shows in East Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and America. Elmur is also an acclaimed illustrator and filmmaker, having composed and illustrated numerous children’s books, and directed six short documentaries and fantasy films which have been shown at international film festivals. In 2018, Elmur was the subject of a major retrospective at the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates, called Fragrances of the Forest and Photos. This was followed the same year by Forests and Spirits at the Saatchi Gallery, London, showing alongside two luminaries of Sudanese modernism, Kamala Ishaaq, and Ibrahim El Salahi. Elmur’s artwork is collected widely and is included in the permanent collection of prestigious institutions including MOMA, New York; Pompidou Centre, Paris; MACAAL, Marrakech; The Sharjah Art Museum and the Sharjah Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates.

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Lot 52
Mahmoud Mohammed Farah (Sudanese, born 1944)
Displacement l (part of the Art of War, Act of War Series), 2021
Signed ‘mahmoud 2021’ (lower middle)
Oil on canvas
148 x 145 cm

Provenance: From the artist’s collection.

Mahmoud Mohamed Farah is a Sudanese/Canadian painter and Educator.�Farah studied under Ibrahim El Salahi as an undergraduate at the College of Fine and Applied Art in Khartoum, Sudan between 1964-1968, and worked at the same college as a Teaching Assistant, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer between 1968-1981. Farah received his Masters degree from the College of Art in Dusseldorf in Germany in 1981, and subsequently worked at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and at The Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Farah sees his paintings as diaries of his life journey. Elusive and mysterious images wait to be revealed as he uses a brush and a few colours, and exposes the mysterious images layer by layer. Farah is influenced by a variety music from classical and jazz to ethnic African and indigenous Sudanese music, and his recent work has been influenced by the devastating war in Sudan, which has formed the basis of his current theme Displacement Act of war, Art of war.

Farah has exhibited his work widely in Sudan, Germany, USA, Canada, Brunei, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. He was one of the prize winners for the Al Burda Competition in 2016 and the gold medal winner of the Saudia Airlines Art Competition, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1994.�

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Lot 32
George Lilanga (Tanzanian, 1934 – 2005)
Title partially obscured verso (Utali Da..Ngoja Niku..), circa mid 1990s
Signed ‘Lilanga’ (lower right)
Enamel on board
62 x 61 cm

Provenance: Private collection

George Lilanga is recognised internationally as one of Tanzania’s best known artists. He fused influences from traditional Makonde carving with surreal, modern observations to create his much celebrated, idiosyncratic sculptures and paintings.

Lilanga began training as a sculptor in 1961, making wood carvings in the traditional Makonde form. He moved to Dar es Salaam in 1970, where he encountered the Tingatinga School, which had a profound effect on his work.

In 1979 he participated in a group exhibition of African artists in Washington DC, where the artist Keith Haring saw Lilanga’s paintings and later acknowledged the significant impact this encounter had made on his own work.

Today Lilanga’s work is widely collected, featuring in many important private and institutional collections of African art.

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Lot 31
Justus Kyalo (Kenyan, born 1972)
More Light a Little, 2021
Signed ‘signature’ verso
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 99.5 cm

Provenance: Private Collection

Trained as an illustrator, Justus Kyalo has become one of Kenya’s most respected contemporary artists. Over the past twenty years he has undertaken a rich visual journey towards abstraction. From loose figurative work, largely inspired by movement and dance, he has more recently painted pure, multi-layered, colour fields that absorb and envelop the viewer.

His work can be found in many collections including KPMG, the French Embassy, Ford Foundation, Safaricom and the World Bank, Washington. He has exhibited widely in Kenya, including a retrospective solo exhibition at Redhill Art Gallery in 2013, as well as in Europe and America. In 2009 he was included in the distinguished exhibition Africa Now, at the World Bank, Washington D.C.

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Lot 30
Richard Kimathi (Kenyan 1971)
Competition l, circa 2005
Signed ‘KIMAThi’ (lower right)
Acrylic on canvas
78 x 71cm

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 represented in some major art collections locally and internationally.

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Lot 29
Sane Wadu (Kenyan, born 1954)
The Labour, 1990
Signed ‘Sane Wadu 90’ (lower right)
Watercolour on paper
42 x 59 cm

Provenance: From the artist’s collection

Having previously worked as a teacher, a court clerk, a writer, a playwright and a theatre actor, Sane Wadu began painting professionally in the 1980s and went on to become one of Gallery Watatu’s most iconic artists. Over a long and distinguished career, he has gained acclaim for his expressionistic, energetic paintings, which use thickly applied oil paint to create critically reflective narratives and scenes.

In the 1990s, Wadu co-founded the Ngecha Artists’ Association with his contemporaries Eunice Wadu, Wanyu Brush and Chain Muhandi. Working alongside his wife and fellow artist Eunice Wadu, he continues to support young artists through The Sane Wadu Trust where they hold weekly art workshops from their studio in Naivasha.

Wadu’s work has been exhibited worldwide, including in the USA, Germany, South Africa, Japan and the UK, notably in the seminal exhibition Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1995 and its accompanying book. Other publications include Angaza Africa by the African curator at the British Museum, Chris Spring, 2008 and Contemporary African Art by Sidney Kasfir, 2000. In 2021 Wadu exhibited in the travelling group show Mwili Akili na Roho, at The Royal Academy, London and Haus Der Kunst, Munich and held a solo retrospective, I Hope So, at Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute in 2022. Wadu’s work was also featured in the 2023 exhibition, When We See Us at Zeitz MOCAA, now on view at Kunstmuseum Basel.

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Lot 28
Donald Wasswa (Ugandan, born 1978)
Untitled (Abstract Figures), 2017
Signed ‘Waswad.17’ (lower left)
Pen on paper
21.5 x 39 cm

Provenance: Direct from the artist

Donald Wasswa is a multidisciplinary artist whose artwork encourages conversations about the future of humankind whilst considering the influence of science and technology in modern societies. He studies the process of transformation, with his primary focus on humans versus a given environment, social interactions, and the nature of communication involved. Wasswa’s artworks and research are influenced by real events, which rely on spontaneous encounters with natural or found objects. These objects are carriers of memories of places that he claims as art materials. Wasswa carves, assembles and arranges the found objects into sculptures, 3D paintings, and, at times, installations. Wasswa imagines the secret lives of human-made objects and how they determine the future of humans.��

Wasswa studied Sculpture at Kyambogo University. His practice has evolved to encompass sculpture, painting, and performance. He was the 2016 recipient of the Merit Award in the Absa L’Atelier competition. Wasswa has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Uganda and abroad, including: Zikunta, Kampala, 2016; To Live is to Become, Afriart Gallery, Kampala, 2017; Degenerative Evolution of the Living, Absa Art Gallery, Johannesburg in 2018. In 2019, Wasswa was one of the selected artists for Ouagadougou Sculpture Biennial and showed at 1-54 and a group exhibition with Circle at Cromwell Place in 2021. He is currently based in Kampala where he is the founder/proprietor of Artpunch Studio.

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