Bonhams Modern and Contemporary Art sale to be curated by designer Roubi L`Roubi
(Artdaily.org)

Bonhams announced that Roubi L’Roubi, curator of the Saatchi Gallery’s exhibition ‘Forests and Spirits: Figurative Art from the Khartoum School’ will curate a section of its African Art sale on Wednesday 20th March at its New Bond Street Saleroom. The auction will feature works chosen by L’Roubi in a section called the Creative Currents of the Nile. Roubi L’Roubi said ‘I am thrilled to have been invited to curate this important and ground-breaking exhibition. Art depicts the human condition in real-time and nowhere is this more authentically rendered than in the artists that lived and worked along the Nile.’ Other artists featured by Roubi L’Roubi in Creative Currents of the Nile’ include Ibrahim El-Salahi, a founder of the eminent Khartoum art school, with his work Standing Figure, estimate £15,000-20,000. Sudanese artist Salah El Mur, a graduate from the school, who paints the peop