Long-forgotten family portrait sells at auction for $1.4 million
Written by Maisie Linford, CNN When hairstylist Christine Davis sat for a painting by a friend in 1971, she could never have expected it to earn her family $1.4 million five decades later. But in the intervening years, the artist, Ben Enwonwu, came to be known as one of Africa's greatest modernists, painting subjects including Queen Elizabeth II and Nigerian princess Adetutu "Tutu" Ademiluyi.