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    ART FROM AFRICA AND ITS DIASPORA AT CHRISTIE’S

    Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
    Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Highpower (2007) (£600,000-800,000). © Christie’s Images Ltd 2022. UPDATE: THIS MADE £1,482,000

    The largest single owner collection dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora will be held at Christie’s in London on October 13. The sale of Robert Devereux’s Sina Jina Collection, which will include around 70 pieces, will raise funds to support environmental and arts charities. Sina Jina is Swahili for a place with no name and the founding principle of the collection is supporting artists to continue to create pioneering art. The sale will offer works by El Anatsui, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Nicholas Hlobo, William Kentridge, Marcia Kure, Elias Sime, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and others and is expected to realise around £2 million. The selection ranges from installations, sculpture and painting to photography. The auction will be held alongside the 20th/21st Century evening sale and will be part of Christie’s Frieze Week programme.

    Robert Devereus began acquiring works for the Sina Jina Collection in the early 2000’s. This coincided with a seminal show, Africa Remix curated by Simon Niami, which toured to the Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and Hayward Gallery, London.

    UPDATE: THE SINA JINA COLLECTION MADE £2,960,484