Bola Asiru is the founder of Red Door Gallery in Lagos, as well as a keen art collector and patron of contemporary African art. Alongside his preoccupation supporting and mentoring young Nigerian artists, he serves as the principal for MasterCard Advisors, Middle East & Africa with a primary focus on...
Independent curator and arts advisor Lucy Macgarry is the co-director of Latitudes Online: a new marketplace for contemporary art from Africa. She holds a Master of fine art from WITS, a Bachelor of Commerce honours in business management from UCT, and a Bachelor of Arts in visual studies from UCT....
On June 4, 2018, Omenka will continue the next in its seminar series themed Art as an Alternative Investment at The Wheatbaker, Ikoyi, Lagos. The rising value of Nigerian art at international auctions is evidence that collectors, financial institutions and wealth managers alike need to understand its worth. Research shows...
Held on March 28, 2018, Sotheby’s second sale of Modern and Contemporary African Art realised £1,802,750 GBP / $2,555,038 USD in London (pre-sale estimate: £1,167,500-1,707,000 / $1,654, 698-2,419,331 USD) and set fourteen auction records in this category. The sale was led by two Nigerian artists, pioneer of African modernism Ben Enwonwu, whose work Africa Dances achieved...
Sotheby’s second dedicated auction of modern and contemporary African art will take place in London on March 28, 2018, and will include a carefully selected collection of works by 62 artists featuring paintings, photographs, drawings and sculpture from the 20th and 21st centuries from 16 countries across Africa, with a strong...
In 2014, Tayo Fagbule and I prepared the first of the yearly reports on the Nigerian art market. Four years later, we continue our efforts to provide collectors, artists, art institutions, academics and investors with a reliable tool to assess the development and evolution of the Nigerian art market. For...
Born in 1983 in Enugu, Njideka Akunyili Crosby lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Her works on paper combine collage, drawing, painting, printmaking and photo transfers. Crosby negotiates the cultural terrain between her adopted home in America and her native Nigeria, creating autobiographical works that expose the challenges of...
A rare and historically significant composition by Nigerian Modernist, Ben Enwonwu, features as the top lot at Bonhams Africa Now – Modern & Contemporary African Art Sale slated for October 5, 2017. The painting, Nigerian Symphony, 1963-34, 48 x 178cm is estimated at £100,000-150,000 and depicts a busy street scene, swarming with...
On May 16, 2017, Sotheby’s inaugural sale of Modern and Contemporary African Art realised a total of £2,794,750 in London, a new benchmark for an auction in this category. In addition, a new record was set for the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare, when Crash Willy, from 2009, sold for £224,750. In...
From May 21 to 22, 2017, Arthouse Contemporary, will present the eighteenth edition of its auction of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Kia Showroom, Lagos. Founded in 2007, Arthouse Contemporary is an international auction house that specialises in modern and contemporary art from West Africa. With auctions held twice...
Hannah O’Leary holds a Master’s degree in History of Art with Cultural Anthropology from Glasgow University. She first joined Sotheby’s in 2005, initially working in the Dublin and Melbourne offices. In 2006 she joined Bonhams in London, where she helped pioneer the first international auctions of South African Art and...
Nigerian art features in Sotheby’s first dedicated sale of Modern and Contemporary African art, London, on May 16, 2017. According to Hannah O’Leary, Sotheby’s head of Modern and Contemporary African art: “The marketplace for Modern and Contemporary art from Africa has transformed dramatically over the past decade, but despite this...
