View 5 Eduardo Saidi Tingatinga Originals

View 5 of Eduardo Saidi Tingatinga's original paintings, painted in 1972, nearly 40 years ago.

This is a very rare collection. Eduardo Saidi Tingatinga's paintings are very hard to come by, a very good investment opportunity.

Eduardo Saidi Tingatinga was a self taught painter with only 4 years of primary school education.

Mr Tingatinga was born in 1932 in a village in southern Tanzania on the border of Mozambique. He was just starting to receive recognition for his square board-paintings, when his life was cut short in 1972, he was mistaken for a fleeing thief and fatally shot by the police.

Before he died he started to attract a group of followers. Today Tingatinga Art thrives and is primarily produced and sold from Tanzania, East Africa.

These five wonderful originals are oil on hard board, This is how Tingatinga art was traditionally painted. Today most Tingatinga artists paint on canvas or cloth, a few artists are reverting back to the tradtional square board, (Hard Board).

There where 20 pieces to this collection, 15 originals have been sold in Japan.

Enjoy a little of Africa's art history.

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