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Chimp’s abstract art up for sale

A CHIMPANZEE’S abstract paintings are going under the hammer at a top auction house.

Thu, 12 May, 2005 - 01:00

Sherna Noah

The animal, named Congo, produced the art in 1957, when he was three years old.

It will now be sold alongside work by the likes of Andy Warhol, Renoir and the Chapman Brothers.

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