eaglechild: The ArtHouse Contemporary Limited auctions really deserves a resounding round of applause. Also laudable is the full-house gathering at every one of its editions. On its ninth edition last Monday at the Ikoyi, Lagos-based Wheatbaker Hotel, the biannual art event trundled on, in blissful oblivion of the gloomy economic prognoses of the outside world.

El Anatsui’s oil on wood panels “Grandma’s Cloth Series VI” (Lot 54) edged out others to become the auction’s bestselling work at the hammer price of N11.4 million.

Anatsui was born in Anyako, and trained at the College of Art, University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi, in central Ghana. He began teaching at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in 1975, and has become affiliated with the Nsukka group.(wikipedia).
Yusuf Grillo’s oil on board painting, “Sango Worshipper” sold for the hammer price of N 7.4 million, as the second bestselling work.
Ben Enwonwu’s oil on board painting, “Agbogho Mmoo” and his bronze head, “Remi”, sold for the hammer prices of N3 million and N2.5 million, respectively.

Granted, there was this homage to the masters, which accounted for the fact that their works clinched the first five positions as the bestselling works. Yet, it is undeniable that the bidders’ whims – albeit momentarily – seemed to take flight, far off into more conceptual realms. That explains why[b] Nnenna Okore[/b]’s clay and burlap work, “Akwa Ocha”, could sell for a respectable hammer price of N1.5 million or Chidi Kwubiri’s pointillist oil and acrylic on canvas offering going for N1.1 million. Then call the N1.6 million hammer price sale of Peju Alatise’s mixed-media relief, “Aso-Bora”, a nod to both industry and creativity.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/a-time-for-masterly-offerings-/132276/

afam4eva: WOW!!! That's a lot.

djmally: Haba . Eleven-wetin million? No be to kukuma color-print the image from the net, frame it and hang in it on a spare space in my office?

djmally: Haba . Eleven-wetin million? No be to kukuma color-print the image from the net, frame it and hang in it on a spare space in my office?

djmally: Haba . Eleven-wetin million? No be to kukuma color-print the image from the net, frame it and hang in it on a spare space in my office?

aglomar: Great, u don't have to be in music or football to be rich.

Brand_new: For all you painter wannabe's and doubters too, I know of an art collector in Nigeria who pays such ridiculous amounts for paintings and sculptures, which he in turn sells at a much more higher price most times to the International market. He is presently the largest individual Art collector in Nigeria and has over 6,000 pieces of painting, sculptures and Antiques.

So Arts is a Lucrative business if you understand the details.

afam4eva: WOW!!! That's a lot.

eaglechild: Erhabor Emokpae
Dancing faces
(Oil on board 82 x 57 cm. 1969)