Annabelle Wanjiku Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1963 -

Annabelle Wanjiku was born in 1962 in Nyeri, Kenya and started her artistic career in the mid 1980s. She was inspired and encouraged by her German artist partner and the late Ruth Schaffner - curator of the prestigious Gallery Watatu in Nairobi.

Annabelle belongs to the earlier generation of Kenyan artists and, without academic training, autodidactically developed her very personal style: semi-abstract, semi-figurative, colourful, ‘Annabelle-Blue’ and dream-like compositions.

Today she lives and works as a freelance artist in Kampala, Uganda.
Annabelle has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Kenya, Uganda, Germany and Japan. Her large-scale mixed media composition “Mother Nature and her Babies” (2001) was auctioned in 2013 in Circle Art’s Modern and Contemporary Art Auction in Nairobi.

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  • Annabelle Wanjiku (Kenyan, 1963 – 2020) Untitled I, 1982
    Nov. 06, 2024

    Annabelle Wanjiku (Kenyan, 1963 – 2020) Untitled I, 1982

    Est: KSh220,000 - KSh350,000

    Annabelle Wanjiku (Kenyan, 1963 – 2020) Untitled I, 1982 Signed ‘82 Annabelle’ (lower mid-right) Mixed media on canvas 69 x 61 cm

    Art Auction East Africa
  • Annabelle Wanjiku (Kenyan, 1963- 2020), Untitled, undated
    Nov. 08, 2022

    Annabelle Wanjiku (Kenyan, 1963- 2020), Untitled, undated

    Est: KSh200,000 - KSh250,000

    Annabelle Wanjiku was one of Ruth Schaffner’s most celebrated Gallery Watatu artists. She used to travel from Diani, at the coast, to show her work and be mentored by Schaffner who considered her one of the most interesting female artists of her generation in Kenya. Wanjiku became a single mother at a young age and has explained that this period of hardship and rejection taught her about love and has influenced the subject of all her paintings: the importance of family life, co-existence and bringing people together. The depth of her feeling for humanity and nature can be seen in the joyful merging of plants, people, birds and animals. Wanjiku’s impasto technique involved mixing and creating her own paints using clay and natural pigments alongside traditional artist paint. Her work has featured in group and solo exhibitions since the early 1980s in Kenya, Uganda, Germany, the USA and Japan. Wanjiku passed away in Uganda, where she had lived for 12 years, yet she remains one of Nairobi’s legends from the post-Independence era.

    Art Auction East Africa
  • Annabelle Wanjiku (Kenyan, 1963 – 2020) Untitled (Birds), undated
    Nov. 09, 2021

    Annabelle Wanjiku (Kenyan, 1963 – 2020) Untitled (Birds), undated

    Est: KSh200,000 - KSh250,000

    Annabelle Wanjiku (Kenyan, 1963 – 2020) Untitled (Birds), undated Signed ‘ANABELLE’ (lower left) Mixed media on canvas 66.2 x 47.4 cm Modern African Art

    Art Auction East Africa
  • Annabelle Wanjiku (Kenyan, born 1963) Entwined, 2018
    Oct. 21, 2020

    Annabelle Wanjiku (Kenyan, born 1963) Entwined, 2018

    Est: KSh220,000 - KSh310,000

    Annabelle Wanjiku (Kenyan, born 1963) Entwined, 2018 Signed ‘ANNABELLE 018’ (lower middle) Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 104.5 x 58 cm

    Art Auction East Africa
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