{"id":3733,"date":"2021-11-10T15:25:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kwesinews.com\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2021-11-10T15:41:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:41:49","slug":"godwin-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kwesinews.com\/godwin-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"Purchased $2,000. Sold $107,100,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandan painter Godwin Champs Namuyimba was represented at Phillips by his painting <em>Destiny<\/em> (2019), which depicts a Black astronaut in repose, his head resting on a globe. John Auerbach, a former Sotheby\u2019s executive and an art collector, originally purchased work directly from the artist at a time when his paintings were selling for prices between $1,000 and $2,000. It sold for $107,100, 13 times the estimate of $8,000, just days before the artist is due to have a solo show at New York\u2019s East Projects gallery. In the past year, a group of works by the young artist have recently surfaced at auction, going for prices well past their low estimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandan painter Godwin Champs Namuyimba was represented at Phillips by his painting Destiny (2019), which depicts a Black astronaut in repose, his head resting on a globe. John Auerbach, a former Sotheby\u2019s executive and an art collector, originally purchased work directly from the artist at a time when his paintings were selling for prices between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwesinews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwesinews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwesinews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwesinews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwesinews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kwesinews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3738,"href":"https:\/\/kwesinews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions\/3738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwesinews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwesinews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwesinews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwesinews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}