Lot 452: Kay Lipton, Australian b.1923- ''Figure studies from North and South Kigali

Kay Lipton, Australian b.1923- ''Figure studies from North and South Kigali, Rwanda and from Kambanga, Southern Zaire''; oil on canvas, signed and dated 58, bears label attached to the reverse, in a Mvule wood moulding frame, 43.5x49.5cm Note: Kathleen (Kay) Lipton (nee Man), was born in London in 1923. The artist trained at the Central School of Finée Art in 1938 and at St Martin's School of Art in 1939 under Bernard Meninsky and Harold 'Hal' Missingham. She designed window displays for Lyons Corner House tearooms, in Coventry Street, London in 1949-1953. She also produced an Illustrated Loyal Address to Queen Elizabeth on the parchment of an African drum, on permanent display in the Commonwealth lnstitute, London. The artist and her husband the scientist Dr Anthony Lipton were living in Uganda, East Africa for eight years from 1953 until 1961. Kay Lipton was at this time the artist in residence at the Information Department of the British High Commission for the Protectorate of Uganda and painted the first murals at Entebbe Airport, which were later holed by bullets during the Entebbe hostage rescue operation in 1976. Anthony Lipton was working at Makerere College, Kampala.