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Prince Twins Seven-Seven

Prince Twins Seven-Seven (1944 - 2011) was active/lived in Pennsylvania / Africa, Nigeria.  Prince Twins Seven Seven is known for Brightly colored patterned painting.

Following is the obituary of the artist by William Grimes, The New York Times, July 3, 2011

Prince Twins Seven-Seven, Nigerian Artist, Dies at 67

Prince Twins Seven-Seven, a prominent Nigerian artist and leading representative of the Oshogbo School, whose brightly colored, intricately patterned paintings evoked the world of Yoruba folklore and religion, died on June 16 in Ibadan, Nigeria. He was 67.

The cause was complications of a stroke, Harriet B. Schiffer, his dealer, said.  Prince Twins Seven-Seven changed his birth name, Olaniyi Osuntoki, to signal his status as the sole surviving child of his parents' seven sets of twins. "They believed that I was the reincarnation of twins they had lost," he told The Baltimore Sun in 2001.

"Prince" was more than a flourish. His grandfather was king of Ibadan in the 1890s and, until the artist became seriously ill, he was about to be installed as chief of his clan, the Osuntoki.

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