JOHN B. MAINGA 1954 - 2000 Start Price USD 500.00 Current Price USD 500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, July 01, 2008 End Time Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Location Silver Spring, MD See more about 'JOHN B. MAINGA 1954 - 2000' Description John B Mainga b.1954 - 2000Kenya Relatively little is known about this artist other than he was born in Kenya and was commissioned by the Watatu Gallery at the end of the last century to produce a series of paintings. JB came up with this rather unique visual technique. Mainga was the originator of a school of painting, which paints images within images, the school is known as the Mainga School of Painting - one of his students continues this technique is Masila who lives and works in Kenya. Mainga was hired by Ruth Shaffner, a great proponent and activist of art in Kenya, a white Kenyan woman who started the famous Gallery Watatu, to produce a series of paintings for the Gallery. Unfortunately, Ruth has since died, and so has Mainga who was killed after being runover by a Matatu - form of local transport - but not before his paintings, which were originally on leather were collected by art dealers around the world.   This fine piece by Mainga is not on leather as most of his work was done.  It is done on fabric...similar to the Batik Style.  RARE PIECE!!!   Measurements: 30" tall and 50" wide On Jun-04-08 at 19:19:30 PDT, seller added the following information: On Jun-05-08 at 11:22:53 PDT, seller added the following information: Use the FREE Counters 1 million sellers do - Vendio! Place a Bid!

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