even chimps get their 15 minutes

a london auction of paintings by a chimp brought in more than $25,000. surprisingly, these paintings were part of an auction including works by warhol and renoir--which didn't sell...

Congo [the chimpanzee], born in 1954, produced about 400 drawings and paintings between the ages of 2 and 4. He died in 1964 of tuberculosis.
His artwork provoked reactions ranging from scorn to skepticism among critics of the time, but painter Pablo Picasso is reported to have hung a Congo painting on his studio wall after receiving it as a gift.

the uk telegraph adds some details including my fave that congo was "[d]ubbed the Cezanne of the ape world"