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A chat with Addis’s foremost art afficionado

From Addis Journal Mon 28 Sep, 10:26 am

For Mesfin Gebreyes Oda, art has always been an object of interest, starting from his early school days at Lycée Guebre Mariam in the mid fifties and sixties. But it was a chance encounter with the works of Ethiopian modernist artist Gebre Kirstos Desta that made him take the business of art collecting seriously, an [...]
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