African Art Club

For the first time the AGO is presenting a gallery dedicated to the display of historical African art with important Cameroun Art like the Bangwa Statue of Queen Nana with Child, collected ca. 1914, included in the renowned, recently donated Frum collection.

One the world’s finest collections of sub-Saharan art, the Frum collection is mainly composed of figurative sculptural works from West and Central Africa, dating from the 14th and mid-20th century.

This celebrated collection includes sculptural works mainly from the sub-Saharan regions of western and central Africa.

Explore the diversity of this regional art from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries. Discover the values and ideas underlying these works.

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 Upcoming USA exhibition opens on April 11, 2009, “Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500 to Present.”  Those used to European images of Africans — often condescending or downright racist, depending on the era — will enjoy the sometimes ironic results when the mirror is turned from colonized to colonizers. The show closes Aug. 8 2009

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Chez Christie’s à Paris Une figure du Cameroun adjugée à 1 M

AFP  04/12/2009 |

Une figure d’ancêtre royal masculin Bangwa du Cameroun s’est vendue aux enchères à Paris 1.017.000 euros avec les frais, tandis qu’un masque Songye (RD du Congo) a atteint 793.000 euros, a annoncé vendredi la maison Christie’s.

La figure camerounaise “est généralement considérée comme le compagnon de la célèbre Reine Bangwa ayant appartenue à Helena Rubinstein et aujourd’hui dans les collections du...{+}

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I just added a social Club for the paid members of the Club. It works in a similar way than facebook (but is not as sophisticated at this moment)

In the Club you can edit your profile, visit the directory to invite some friends and update your own page with your website, new ideas activities and discussions, and have some private conversations with your friends . So please create your profile page, user friending, profile page posts, profile activities, social comments, receive email notifications (with privacy settings) and discover the full directory of paid members . 

So go ahead and try it out–Make some new African Art friends and have a social experience in your African Art Social Club. 

To be part of the Social Networking African Art Club yo must be a paid registered users or a client of buyafricanantiques.com .

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Image ID: 488163 Yetsang Girl (Southern Cameroons). ([1931])

Image Title:  Yetsang Girl (Southern Cameroons).

Photographer : Bernatzik, Hugo Adolf, 1897-1953 – Author

Specific Material Type : Photomechanical prints

Item/Page/Plate: 33 from the book The dark continent; Africa,: The landscape and the people (Orbis terrarum) ~ Hugo Adolf Bernatzik

Source Description: xv, p., 256 pl. on 128 l. 31 cm.

Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / General Research Division

Catalog Call Number: BKD+ (Bernatzik, H. A. Dark continent, Africa)

Digital ID: 488163

Record ID: 304188

Digital Item Published: 5-5-2005; updated 2-12-2009

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A few interesting African Art auctions in  November 09 in France and Germany before the end of year rush in Paris in december

Some quite good pieces and interesting collections of African and Oceanic art at christies, sotheby’s, rive gauche , etc…

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