Somali Girl at Wajir

Details

Jonathan Kenworthy (b. 1943)
Somali Girl at Wajir
signed, dated and numbered 'Kenworthy 1985 A/C' (on the base)
bronze with a brown patina
21¾ in. (55.3 cm.) long

Provenance

Gifted by the artist to the present owner.

Literature

S. Russell, Jonathan Kenworthy: sculpture and works on paper and photographs, London, 2007, pp. 142-144, 299, another cast illustrated.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

'By the busy wells at Wajir, where stories claim that Cleopatra once watered her camels, and where up to two thousand camels can be assembled by midday, a beautiful Somali woman waits her turn at the well, leaning easily against her recumbent camel. Queuing for a place can last half the day' (see S. Russell, Jonathan Kenworthy: sculpture and works on paper, London, 2007, chapter 8).

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