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Heartbeat As Another Renowned Nigerian artist, Grillo dies
The news reaching the OSUNREPORTERS NEWS has is the One of Nigeria’s most influential modern artists and art teachers, Prof Yusuf Grillo is dead.
According to the report, a statement by Otunba Babatunde Grillo announced the passing of the deceased who died in the early hours of Monday, August 23 at 87.
The statement explained that the first President Society of Nigerian Artists (SNA) died at the Gbagada General Hospital in Lagos state after a brief illness, and was buried at the Atan Cemetry, Yaba on Monday according to Islamic rites.
……Grillo, who was a prominent art teacher at the School of Art, Design and Printing, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos before his retirement trained at the Nigerian College of Arts and Science Zaria (now Ahmadu Bello University), and was a member of the Zaria School, a society founded in 1958. Born in 1934 in the Brazilian Quarter of Lagos, Yusuf Grillo went on to become one of the most influential figures in Nigerian art.
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