
Lot 20
Yusuf Adebayo Cameron Grillo(Nigerian, born 1934)'Evangelists: Cymbal, Triangle and Tambourine'
28 February 2018, 17:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £56,250 inc. premium
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Yusuf Adebayo Cameron Grillo (Nigerian, born 1934)
'Evangelists: Cymbal, Triangle and Tambourine'
signed and dated 'GRILLO/ 64' (lower left); bears label inscribed 'Evangelists: Cymbals, triangle and tambourine/ 65/ YA Grillo/ Yaba College of Tech, Yaba Lagos/ c/o Robin/ Sold to Mrs Chesterfield' (verso)
oil on board
121 x 78cm (47 5/8 x 30 11/16in).
signed and dated 'GRILLO/ 64' (lower left); bears label inscribed 'Evangelists: Cymbals, triangle and tambourine/ 65/ YA Grillo/ Yaba College of Tech, Yaba Lagos/ c/o Robin/ Sold to Mrs Chesterfield' (verso)
oil on board
121 x 78cm (47 5/8 x 30 11/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Purchased from the artist by Mrs Chesterfield in Lagos, 1964.
By descent to the current owner.
Mrs Chesterfield befriended the British architect, Robin Atkinson, when she moved to Lagos with her family in the mid-1950s. Atkinson had long been an admirer of Yusuf Grillo's work and commissioned him to design stained glass windows for the dome of the Presbytyrian church in Yaba, Lagos. Atkinson took Mrs Chesterfield to one of Grillo's exhibitions, where she met the artist and purchased Evangelists: Cymbal, Triangle and Tambourine.