Guardian Arts
Auction market seeks stronger ethics, values
8 years agoBruce Onobrakpeya’s ‘Greater Nigeria’ (Foil and Ivories, mounted on plywood, water 2007), and sold for N9.2m, Nigerian record, at 2008 auction.
Despite exposing huge potentials of African arts, Nigeria’s secondary market still has quite some loose ends to tighten. After Mrs Kavita Chellaram-New Arthouse Contemporary made history as West Africa’s premier…