Yusuf Grillo Dies of COVID-19 Complications

Yusuf Grillo, the ace Nigerian visible artist, has handed away on the age of 86.

Gboyega Grillo, son of the deceased, informed newsmen that the artist died of COVID-19 problems within the early hours of Monday morning.

The bereaved additionally disclosed that the stays of his father can be buried the identical day on the Atan Cemetery in Lagos.

Grillo is taken into account one in all Nigeria’s excellent and academically skilled painters.

The artist, born in 1934, was identified for his ingenious works and the prominence of the color blue in his work.

He grew to become recognised internationally within the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies whereas exhibiting a big assortment of his early works.

Grillo made use of his western artwork coaching, combining western methods with Yoruba sculpture traits.

He was a former head of the division of Artwork and Printing, Yaba Faculty of Know-how in Lagos state.

Grillo was the primary president of the Society of Nigerian Artists.