Althea Wilson Sold at Auction Prices

Althea Wilson began her career in Nigeria as a fine artist and examples of her early paintings are held in the Nigeria National Collection of Art, as a result of sixteen exhibitions held in Nigerian Art Galleries in Lagos.

She later moved to London to design and make up antique African necklaces for Yves Saint Laurent, designed and painted window displays for Dunhill International, Rococo and other shops. She went into the antique trade then ran her own shop for fourteen years and has worked on the restoration of painted, gilded and Chinese lacquered antique furniture for the late Lord Rendlesham and Scarisbrick & Bate of Mount Street, London W1 among many