连州市第八中学高中英语Unit1ArtSectionⅠReadingandThinking学案含解析.docVIP

Unit 1　ART 　　非洲版的“《蒙娜丽莎》”在失踪40多年后被发现.这幅画再次被发现后在尼日利亚进行了展出.这幅画究竟是如何被发现的?在它身上发生了什么故事呢？ Nigeria’s “Mona Lisa shown at home for the first time since it resurfaced Lagos (Reuters）-The Nigerian “Mona Lisa”, a painting lost for more than 40 years and found in a London flat， is being exhibited in Nigeria for the first time since it disappeared. Tutu， an art work by Nigeria’s best。known modern artist， Ben Enwonwu， was painted in 1974。 It appeared at an art show in Lagos the following year， but its whereabouts （行踪） after that were unknown， until it resurfaced in north London。 The owners—who wished to remain anonymous①—had called in Giles Peppiatt， an expert in modern and contemporary African art at the London auction house Bonhams, to identify their painting. He recognised Enwonwu’s portrait。 “It was discovered by myself on a pretty routine valuation② call③ to look at a work by Ben Enwonwu，” said Giles Peppiatt， director of contemporary African art at Bonhams。 “I didn’t know what I was going to see. I turned up， and it was this amazing painting。 Wed had no inkling （略知) that Tutu was there. How it got there remains a bit of a mystery, Peppiatt said。 “All the family that owned it know that it was owned by their father， who had business interests in Nigeria。 He travelled and picked it up in the late or mid。70s。” The family put the portrait up for sale， and it was auctioned④ for 1。2 million pounds in February to an anonymous buyer。 The sale made it the highest-valued work of Nigerian modern art sold at auction。 Tutu was loaned⑤ to the Art X Lagos fair, held from Friday to Sunday， by Access Bank, the organisers said in a statement。 Peppiatt said Access Bank arranged the loan but it is not the painting’s owner。 “Tutu is referred to as the African ‘Mona Lisa by virtue of this disappearance and re.emergence, and it is the first work of a modern Nigerian artist to sell for over a million pounds，” said the art fairs founder。 【注释】 ①anonymous adj。　　　　匿名的 ②valuation n。 （专业的)估价，估值 ③call n