A Place With No Name: Works from the Sina Jina Collection
Work by Elias Sime from the Sina Tina collection
Christie’s presents works from Robert Devereux’s Sina Jina Collection as a major highlight of Frieze Week programme of sales and events.
A Place With No Name: Works From the Sina Jina Collection includes 74 works, making it the largest single-owner collection dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and the diaspora to ever be offered at auction.
After developing a deep affinity and association with East Africa in particular, Robert Devereux began his pioneering collection in the early 2000s. Guided by personal passion, he has become a major supporter and champion of the continent’s contemporary art. Described by Devereux as a ‘work in progress’, its founding principle has always been the direct and dynamic support of artists, while also contributing to the development of grassroots art scenes and organisations.
Proceeds from the dedicated auction will benefit a number of arts and environment charities internationally: The Africa Centre, The African Arts Trust, Bët-bi, Gasworks & Triangle Network, and The Lamu Environmental Foundation (LEF).
Ranging across a diversity of media, the works present a vivid picture of contemporary art from Africa and the diaspora. Highlights include chainsawed wood works by El Anatsui, abstractions by Sudanese master Ibrahim El-Salahi, iconic self-portraits by Samuel Fosso, woven textile and collage works by Elias Sime, and extraordinarily imagined portraits by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Christie’s will publish an accompanying catalogue with texts by leading curators and writers, including Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Christine Eyene, Azu Nwagbogu, and Aurella Yussuf.
A Place With No Name: Works From the Sina Jina Collection
6 - 13 October 2022
Auction
13 Oct, 04:00 PM (BST)
Christie’s
8 King Street, St. James's
London SW1Y 6QT
