Lot 1135: Ray Nestor 1888-1989- Portrait of a South East

Ray Nestor 1888-1989- Portrait of a South East Asian lady head and shoulders; oil on canvas, signed, 44.5x34.2cm. Note: Ray Nestor lived for many years in Kenya, drawing and painting the African scenery and wildlife and creating very sensitive pictures of the local Nandi tribespeople. He has a permanent exhibition of his work at Moi University in Kenya. He was also an accomplished portrait artist and carried out a number of portrait commissions for prominent members of the famed Muthaiga Club in Kenya ( subject of the film 'White Mischief'). In 1988 when Nestor was a hundred years old, the Fountain Press published a book of his work 'An African Sketchbook' (Drawings and Watercolours of Kenya by Ray Nestor), with an introduction by Elspeth Huxley. The watercolours of the horse racing subjects would have been done after he retired back to the UK and settled in Sussex. Provenance: The family of the artist