thornapple:
I never stop wondering the motivation behind buying a piece of painting for millions.

thornapple:
I never stop wondering the motivation behind buying a piece of painting for millions.

thornapple:
I never stop wondering the motivation behind buying a piece of painting for millions.

nwabobo:


Afonja won't like this news.

sonnie10:
it shows class and separates the boys from men. Why do you work for money knowing that it is just paper? It is value the society has attached to it. The same material that is used in making 100 naira bill is used in making 1000 naira bill yet one is higher than the other! It feel good to own one thing that no one else can own, masterpiece.

thornapple:
I never stop wondering the motivation behind buying a piece of painting for millions.

GodDeyCraze:


Can't it be duplicated?
Nwanne if I see it I can duplicate it

Ayodejioak:
What are the facts here:

It is Vintage work of art. It's definitely a masterpiece.... But, It was made by a Nigerian

No one knew when it was listed in a foreign auction for sale

(It shouldn't even be listed for sale in the first place but ok...)

It wasn't even sold in Naira

Just in case someone begins to wonder if the Artist will get paid for his work

I guess you can deduce yourself!!!

Trying to picture this same scenario with one of Picasso's painting.... Only in Africa!!

Opoki:

Lol... I guess you know the meaning of my smile. BTW, I'm from Ife and Tutu' first son, her third child is 76yrs old.

Opoki:

Lol... I guess you know the meaning of my smile. BTW, I'm from Ife and Tutu' first son, her third child is 76yrs old.

Tutu is believed to be alive and living in Lagos, the Guardian can reveal after speaking to a cousin of the princess, who is scouring the Nigerian megacity for the woman who has become a national legend.

“We don’t know where she is, but she is still alive,” says Ronke Ademiluyi, speaking over the phone from Lagos. “We’ve been searching for her everywhere.”

Enwonwu painted three portraits of the Ife royal Adetutu Ademiluyi, whom he first saw in Ile-Ife, a town in south-west Nigeria. Struck by her long neck and graceful beauty, Enwonwu spent six months tracking Tutu down, and then had to persuade her family to let her sit for him – something seen as highly irregular for a woman of high birth.

“To have even just found the painting was incredibly exciting, in the very modest surroundings in which we discovered it,” says Peppiatt. “But then to find out that the sitter, Tutu, is still alive and living in Lagos – it’s the icing on the cake.”
Finding her, however, will not be an easy task. With a population of 21 million, it would be difficult to know where to begin searching in Lagos.

Ademiluyi’s late father and Tutu were both grandchildren of the Ife king at the time, making them first cousins. That will narrow the search, but not as much as one may think. The former king had 37 wives, and hundreds of children and grandchildren. Princesses, of whom Ademiluyi is one, abound.

“The Ademiluyi family is like a clan – there are thousands of us,” she says. “There’s no way we can all know each other.”

Ademiluyi knew nothing of her cousin until she learned about the missing painting. A 98-year-old great-uncle told her Tutu was still alive and in her late sixties, which would fit with her apparent age in the painting.

Oliver Enwonwu says he has heard conflicting accounts of Tutu, one that she was alive and the other that she was dead. He was born while the series was being painted, so he never knew his father’s sitter, but he has long wanted to talk to her. “It will be very exciting if she is still living – it will give context to the painting,” he adds. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/24/tutu-ben-enwonwu-painting-nigeria-is-tutu-still-alive

LaudableXX:


No kidding!! If Princess Tutu who was the subject of that painting is in her late 60s, how can her 3rd child be 76 years old? Or am I missing something?

khalids:
Can you see when Igbo and Yoruba collaborate, the result is always excellence....

I really don't know why we keep fighting each other.....we are the ones that can genuinely pull Nigerian out of this mess...

I sometimes think there is a hidden hand behind this quarrel between both tribe....I SMELL DIVIDE AND RULE TACTICS

GavelSlam:


https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/24/tutu-ben-enwonwu-painting-nigeria-is-tutu-still-alive

thornapple:


Hehehehehe
That's deserving going by where their interest lies.

phreakabit:
And he named it Tutu of all things?
Na wa o