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Tingatinga piece fetches EA record price in Paris auction

The late Rajabu Chiwaya's Gold Spotted Leopard and Friend The Songbird was bought 1o years ago at the Galley Watatu in Nairobi for $600. Picture by Frank Whalley

The world record price for an East African painting has been set at $51,079.

And the picture — a Tingatinga piece by the late Rajabu Chiwaya — was bought 10 years ago at the Gallery Watatu in Nairobi, for just…$6,000.

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