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International buyers boost the profile of African art


(Financial Times) By Katrina Manson in Nairobi

Smoking a cigarette on a balcony overlooking the green fields of Kenya’s Rift Valley, South Korean art collector Juno Lee surveys the works hanging before him.

He has just agreed to buy two of the bright graphic tableaux painted by Joseph Bertiers, a Kenyan artist whose satirical paintings include global celebrities such as boxer Mike Tyson and late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. Chickens wander about the metal feet of his outsize sculptures at his rural home-come-studio. (READ MORE)