WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Antiques Roadshow. An Antiques Roadshow guest was stumbling over her words thanks to the price of a piece of art she nearly gave away to charity. The BBC daytime series travelled to Cromford Mills, Derbyshire, to film another episode with expert Lawrence Hendra meeting the owner of a picture that caught his attention.
“So of all the paintings I was not expecting to see here at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire, is a painting by an artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pili Pili Mulongoy," he said. When asked how it came to be in her possession, she replied: “I bought this painting with a job lot of other paintings and prints, I didn’t want half of them so I was going to take them to a charity shop. “I had this one in my arms and I noticed that it had got a signature and could tell that it was a real painting.
“I tried to do some research about it and it’s been on my wall ever since.” She was further probed on what drew her to the painting, with the guest replying: “I think you love it or you hate it and it’s really lovely and colourful and I love the little antelope and I can appreciate how it’s painted. I paint myself and I just really love it.
” Lawrence then elaborated: “As you can see, it’s signed on the bottom right, Pili Pili and he came from a very working class family, he trained as a plumber and a builder and then he fell under guidance of a French artist. “He went to a drawing school set up b.
