ADEDOYIN JOHNSON Christie’s sells controversial Nigerian figures for N92.821m at online auction. The British Auction house went ahead with the auction in spite of calls to withdraw the lot. The “Alusi” figures from Igboland in Eastern Nigeria were sold in Christie’s Paris salesroom on the internet on Monday, June 29. The artworks which sold for 212,500 […]
A total of N36million ($99,340) worth of artworks were sold at the Affordable Art auction organized annually by Arthouse Contemporary Ltd. The figure showed a good start for the art industry in the first quarter of 2020 until the Corona Virus outbreak applied a brake on the legs of a promising year for auctioneers, artists […]