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Sane Wadu (Kenyan, born 1954) Broken Mirror, 2005

Sane Wadu (Kenyan, born 1954) Broken Mirror, 2005 Signed ‘Sane Wadu 05’ (lower right) Mixed media on canvas 69 x 56 cm

Sane Wadu (Kenyan, born 1954) Meditation, 2022

Sane Wadu (Kenyan, born 1954) Meditation, 2023 Signed ‘Sane Wadu’ (lower left) Oil on canvas 65.5 x 50.2 cm

Broken Calabash

Sane Wadu Kenyan b.1954 Broken Calabash signed and dated 1984 (lower left); titled (on the reverse) oil on canvas 66.5 by 89cm., 26⅛ by 35in. framed: 69.5 by 92cm., 27⅜ by 36¼in.

The Vocalist

Sane Wadu Kenyan b.1954 The Vocalist signed and dated 1986 (lower right); titled (on the reverse) oil on canvas 70 by 94cm., 27½ by 37in. framed: 70 by 94cm., 27½ by 37in.

Sane Wadu (b. 1954, Kenya) Untitled, ca. 1988

Sane Wadu (b. 1954, Kenya) Untitled, ca. 1988 Oil on paper Signed "sane wadu" lower right, annotated "Sane Wadu Kenia/Nairobi ca. 1988 Watatu Gallery" on back 49 x 38 cm Provenance: Watatu Gallery, Nairobi Private collection, Germany Sane Wadu (né en 1954, Kenya) Sans titre, vers 1988 Huile sur papier Signé "sane wadu" en bas à droite, annoté "Sane Wadu Kenia/Nairobi ca. 1988 Watatu Gallery" au dos 49 x 38 cm Provenance: Galerie Watatu, Nairobi Collection particulière, Allemagne

Sane Wadu; Kenyan 1954-; Self Portrait as Fisherman

Sane Wadu Kenyan 1954- Self Portrait as Fisherman signed and dated 02 oil on canvas 81 by 56 by 2,5cm, unframed † VAT will be charged on both hammer and premium for this lot

Sane Wadu, Mystische Vogelfigur, Ölgemälde, gerahmt

Sane Wadu, Mystische Vogelfigur, Ölgemälde, gerahmt Sane Wadu, *1954 Nyathuna, bedeutender afrikanischer Maler, lebt und arbeitet in Kenia: " One of the most important artist of expressionism in East Africa. Exhibited wordwide, e.g. in the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York" ( s. die youtube- Doku. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOZO1f8LzqQ ), hier: Mystische blaue Vogelfigur im üppigen Federkleid, Öl/ Karton, ca. 50 x 38 cm, r. u. sign., unter P.partout galeriegerahmt

Sane Wadu (Kenya,Africa,b 1954) oil painting

ARTIST: Sane Mbugua Wadu (Kenyan, African, born 1954) NAME: Two Little Doves (titled on verso) MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Very good. Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 9 x 12 inches / 22 x 30 cm FRAME SIZE: 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches / 22 x 30 cm SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 118085 US Shipping $42 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Sane Wadu was born Walter Njugana Mbugua in 1954 in Nyathuna, Kenya. In the early 80's, after completing high school, he worked as a teacher and later as a court clerk. Wadu is a poet and a writer, he wrote plays and poetry.Sane Wadu began painting professionally in 1985. He used mainly water-colors and household paints on clothing and sheets of plastic. His eccentricity became a subject of ridicule among friends and neighbors and they began to refer to him as "insane", especially since he gave up a secure career as a teacher and clerk in pursuit of painting, which to most was an abnormality. His response to their taunts was to adopt the name Sane which later became his nom de plume. Later he took up oils and moved from clothing and plastic to paper and canvas. Though he had received no formal training, his creativity and drive quickly secured him a national and international audience. He has had one-man exhibitions in New York and his work has been shown in the USA and Europe.Formally, Sane Wadu's paintings have alternated between structured single-point perspective and abstract, dreamlike compositions and forms. He has moved between a tight, impressionistic style and flowing, Surrealistic abstracts - sometimes applying paint in constrained impasto,and sometimes in bright, fluid washes.Wadu's choice of subject matter has also followed a shifting and varied course. Early works often show the wildlife of rural Kenya; hyenas, buffaloes, leopards, and elephants are depicted in isolation in a characteristic wide landscape of distant horizons and soft, muted colors. Though he explains that his inspiration was often the sight of these creatures, the paintings are more than merely descriptive. Placing them in a wild, unpopulated landscape, Wadu says he also pounders the thoughts in the animals' heads.Sane Wadu paints the bush people as solitary figures, like his wild animals. Alongside camels, sheep, or cattle is the lone herdsman, the solo traveler. United through their labors with the environment in which they're set, the figures confront the viewer with a forth-right gaze and open, naive honesty - attributes paralleled by Wadu's style itself. In conception, his people are no different from his animals.Just as he works to grasp the consciousness of wildlife, many works are self-portraits in the roles of his subjects in order to attain a closer empathy with the people he depicts. He is the Virgin Mary, the farm worker, the lover.Currently Sane Wadu lives in Naivasha, Kenya with his family - his wife Eunice Wadu is also an artist, and he regularly conduces art workshops in schools and local community centers. Since the 90's, Sane Wadu's paintings have entered an urban environment and his compositions have become more abstract. On his increasingly crowded canvases, the figures press forward and outward, their massed humanity laid ever more bare.

Sane Wadu (Kenya,Africa,b 1954) oil painting

ARTIST: Sane Mbugua Wadu (Kenyan, African, born 1954) NAME: Two Little Doves (titled on verso) MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Very good. Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 9 x 12 inches / 22 x 30 cm FRAME SIZE: 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches / 22 x 30 cm SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 118085 US Shipping $42 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Sane Wadu was born Walter Njugana Mbugua in 1954 in Nyathuna, Kenya. In the early 80's, after completing high school, he worked as a teacher and later as a court clerk. Wadu is a poet and a writer, he wrote plays and poetry.Sane Wadu began painting professionally in 1985. He used mainly water-colors and household paints on clothing and sheets of plastic. His eccentricity became a subject of ridicule among friends and neighbors and they began to refer to him as "insane", especially since he gave up a secure career as a teacher and clerk in pursuit of painting, which to most was an abnormality. His response to their taunts was to adopt the name Sane which later became his nom de plume. Later he took up oils and moved from clothing and plastic to paper and canvas. Though he had received no formal training, his creativity and drive quickly secured him a national and international audience. He has had one-man exhibitions in New York and his work has been shown in the USA and Europe.Formally, Sane Wadu's paintings have alternated between structured single-point perspective and abstract, dreamlike compositions and forms. He has moved between a tight, impressionistic style and flowing, Surrealistic abstracts - sometimes applying paint in constrained impasto,and sometimes in bright, fluid washes.Wadu's choice of subject matter has also followed a shifting and varied course. Early works often show the wildlife of rural Kenya; hyenas, buffaloes, leopards, and elephants are depicted in isolation in a characteristic wide landscape of distant horizons and soft, muted colors. Though he explains that his inspiration was often the sight of these creatures, the paintings are more than merely descriptive. Placing them in a wild, unpopulated landscape, Wadu says he also pounders the thoughts in the animals' heads.Sane Wadu paints the bush people as solitary figures, like his wild animals. Alongside camels, sheep, or cattle is the lone herdsman, the solo traveler. United through their labors with the environment in which they're set, the figures confront the viewer with a forth-right gaze and open, naive honesty - attributes paralleled by Wadu's style itself. In conception, his people are no different from his animals.Just as he works to grasp the consciousness of wildlife, many works are self-portraits in the roles of his subjects in order to attain a closer empathy with the people he depicts. He is the Virgin Mary, the farm worker, the lover.Currently Sane Wadu lives in Naivasha, Kenya with his family - his wife Eunice Wadu is also an artist, and he regularly conduces art workshops in schools and local community centers. Since the 90's, Sane Wadu's paintings have entered an urban environment and his compositions have become more abstract. On his increasingly crowded canvases, the figures press forward and outward, their massed humanity laid ever more bare.

Sane Wadu (Kenyan, born 1954) Light the Way, 2017

Sane Wadu (Kenyan, born 1954) Light the Way, 2017 Signed ‘Sane Wadu’ (lower right) Oil on canvas 70.4 x 58.2 cm Contemporary African Art

Sane Wadu (Kenya,Africa,b 1954) oil painting

ARTIST: Sane Mbugua Wadu (Kenyan, African, born 1954) NAME: Two Little Doves (titled on verso) MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Very good. Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 9 x 12 inches / 22 x 30 cm FRAME SIZE: 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches / 22 x 30 cm SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 118085 US Shipping $42 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Sane Wadu was born Walter Njugana Mbugua in 1954 in Nyathuna, Kenya. In the early 80's, after completing high school, he worked as a teacher and later as a court clerk. Wadu is a poet and a writer, he wrote plays and poetry.Sane Wadu began painting professionally in 1985. He used mainly water-colors and household paints on clothing and sheets of plastic. His eccentricity became a subject of ridicule among friends and neighbors and they began to refer to him as "insane", especially since he gave up a secure career as a teacher and clerk in pursuit of painting, which to most was an abnormality. His response to their taunts was to adopt the name Sane which later became his nom de plume. Later he took up oils and moved from clothing and plastic to paper and canvas. Though he had received no formal training, his creativity and drive quickly secured him a national and international audience. He has had one-man exhibitions in New York and his work has been shown in the USA and Europe.Formally, Sane Wadu's paintings have alternated between structured single-point perspective and abstract, dreamlike compositions and forms. He has moved between a tight, impressionistic style and flowing, Surrealistic abstracts - sometimes applying paint in constrained impasto,and sometimes in bright, fluid washes.Wadu's choice of subject matter has also followed a shifting and varied course. Early works often show the wildlife of rural Kenya; hyenas, buffaloes, leopards, and elephants are depicted in isolation in a characteristic wide landscape of distant horizons and soft, muted colors. Though he explains that his inspiration was often the sight of these creatures, the paintings are more than merely descriptive. Placing them in a wild, unpopulated landscape, Wadu says he also pounders the thoughts in the animals' heads.Sane Wadu paints the bush people as solitary figures, like his wild animals. Alongside camels, sheep, or cattle is the lone herdsman, the solo traveler. United through their labors with the environment in which they're set, the figures confront the viewer with a forth-right gaze and open, naive honesty - attributes paralleled by Wadu's style itself. In conception, his people are no different from his animals.Just as he works to grasp the consciousness of wildlife, many works are self-portraits in the roles of his subjects in order to attain a closer empathy with the people he depicts. He is the Virgin Mary, the farm worker, the lover.Currently Sane Wadu lives in Naivasha, Kenya with his family - his wife Eunice Wadu is also an artist, and he regularly conduces art workshops in schools and local community centers. Since the 90's, Sane Wadu's paintings have entered an urban environment and his compositions have become more abstract. On his increasingly crowded canvases, the figures press forward and outward, their massed humanity laid ever more bare.

Sane Wadu (Kenya,Africa,b 1954) oil painting

ARTIST: Sane Mbugua Wadu (Kenyan, African, born 1954) NAME: Two Little Doves (titled on verso) MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Very good. Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 9 x 12 inches / 22 x 30 cm FRAME SIZE: 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches / 22 x 30 cm SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 118085 US Shipping $42 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Sane Wadu was born Walter Njugana Mbugua in 1954 in Nyathuna, Kenya. In the early 80's, after completing high school, he worked as a teacher and later as a court clerk. Wadu is a poet and a writer, he wrote plays and poetry.Sane Wadu began painting professionally in 1985. He used mainly water-colors and household paints on clothing and sheets of plastic. His eccentricity became a subject of ridicule among friends and neighbors and they began to refer to him as "insane", especially since he gave up a secure career as a teacher and clerk in pursuit of painting, which to most was an abnormality. His response to their taunts was to adopt the name Sane which later became his nom de plume. Later he took up oils and moved from clothing and plastic to paper and canvas. Though he had received no formal training, his creativity and drive quickly secured him a national and international audience. He has had one-man exhibitions in New York and his work has been shown in the USA and Europe.Formally, Sane Wadu's paintings have alternated between structured single-point perspective and abstract, dreamlike compositions and forms. He has moved between a tight, impressionistic style and flowing, Surrealistic abstracts - sometimes applying paint in constrained impasto,and sometimes in bright, fluid washes.Wadu's choice of subject matter has also followed a shifting and varied course. Early works often show the wildlife of rural Kenya; hyenas, buffaloes, leopards, and elephants are depicted in isolation in a characteristic wide landscape of distant horizons and soft, muted colors. Though he explains that his inspiration was often the sight of these creatures, the paintings are more than merely descriptive. Placing them in a wild, unpopulated landscape, Wadu says he also pounders the thoughts in the animals' heads.Sane Wadu paints the bush people as solitary figures, like his wild animals. Alongside camels, sheep, or cattle is the lone herdsman, the solo traveler. United through their labors with the environment in which they're set, the figures confront the viewer with a forth-right gaze and open, naive honesty - attributes paralleled by Wadu's style itself. In conception, his people are no different from his animals.Just as he works to grasp the consciousness of wildlife, many works are self-portraits in the roles of his subjects in order to attain a closer empathy with the people he depicts. He is the Virgin Mary, the farm worker, the lover.Currently Sane Wadu lives in Naivasha, Kenya with his family - his wife Eunice Wadu is also an artist, and he regularly conduces art workshops in schools and local community centers. Since the 90's, Sane Wadu's paintings have entered an urban environment and his compositions have become more abstract. On his increasingly crowded canvases, the figures press forward and outward, their massed humanity laid ever more bare.

Sane Wadu (Kenyan, born 1954) Kumi Kumi. Circa 2013

Sane Wadu (Kenyan, born 1954) Kumi Kumi. Circa 2013 Signed ‘Sane Wadu’ (lower right) Oil on canvas 71.4 x 92.7 cm

SANE WADU (Kenyan, b. 1954). THREE WITCHES/EVE, Oil on canvas, signed at lower right.

SANE WADU (Kenyan, b. 1954). THREE WITCHES/EVE, Oil on canvas, signed at lower right - 15 in. x 13 in.

SANE WADU (Kenyan, b. 1954). THE GHOST, Oil on paper, signed at lower right.

SANE WADU (Kenyan, b. 1954). THE GHOST, Oil on paper, signed at lower right - 18 1/2 in. x 24 in.

SANE WADU (Kenyan, b. 1954). THE GHOST, Oil on paper, signed at lower right.

SANE WADU (Kenyan, b. 1954). THE GHOST, Oil on paper, signed at lower right - 18 1/2 in. x 24 in.

SANE WADU (Kenyan, b. 1954). THREE WITCHES/EVE, Oil on canvas, signed at lower right.

SANE WADU (Kenyan, b. 1954). THREE WITCHES/EVE, Oil on canvas, signed at lower right - 15 in. x 13 in.

SANE WADU (b. 1945) Untitled

SANE WADU (b. 1945) Untitled