{"id":4905,"date":"2017-12-07T13:28:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T13:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2017-12-07T13:28:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T13:28:33","slug":"ghanaian-painter-sells-painting-1-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/ghanaian-painter-sells-painting-1-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian Painter Sells Painting For $1.5 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas will be lit for someone.<\/p>\n<p>Lynette Yiadom Boakye is a Ghanaian based in the U.K. She is also an artist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/12\/Lynette-Boakye-Yiadom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/12\/Lynette-Boakye-Yiadom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2784\" height=\"1566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/12\/Lynette-Boakye-Yiadom.jpg 2784w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/12\/Lynette-Boakye-Yiadom-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/12\/Lynette-Boakye-Yiadom-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/12\/Lynette-Boakye-Yiadom-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2784px) 100vw, 2784px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lynette did a painting in 2011 titled, <em>The Hours Behind You<\/em>. The painting was sold for over $1m by Sotheby&#8217;s. Sotheby&#8217;s is one of the world\u2019s largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewellery, real estate, and collectables.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The Hours Behind You\u201d<\/em> is full of energy and emotion. It depicts a group of women barefoot, wearing simple white shift dresses or cotton nightgowns, lost in a spirited dance.<\/p>\n<h4>Here is the painting:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/12\/lynette-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/12\/lynette-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas will be lit for someone. Lynette Yiadom Boakye is a Ghanaian based in the U.K. She is also an artist. Lynette did a painting in 2011 titled, The Hours Behind You. The painting was sold for over $1m by Sotheby&#8217;s. Sotheby&#8217;s is one of the world\u2019s largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewellery, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6037,"featured_media":4929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4933,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/4933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}