African Art Club

Jo de Buck is holding a Blowout Bargain Sale in Brussels

Jo De Buck Blowout sales Jo DE BUCK 43 Rue des Minimes 1000 Brussel - Belgie +32 (0)2 512 55 16 +32 (0)2 512 55 16 and the mobile phone +32(0)475.841.729 email jdbtribalarts@belgacom.net

A fine Songye from Alain Naoum collection

Interview with Alain Naoum  April 28, 2009, part one.

David  Norden:    First let me ask what interested you initially in African Art, and how did you start dealing in the area.- Can you tell us what tribes and type of objects you sold best in the past? Do you see some actual trends?

Alain Naoum:  Since I was a child I have been always interested by the history of mankind, like most children I imagine. Questions about where we came from, what was early man and life like, etc. always held my interest.  I also really enjoyed reading the comics of “Tintin” – “Les Septs Boules de Crystal,”  “Les Cigares du Pharaon,” etc.

This exhibition includes a selection of fine African and Oceanic sculpture that once belonged to Vlaminck, who was among the earliest European enthusiasts and collectors of tribal art, a field that was to have a huge impact on 20th-century European art.

Madrid, 9 of March of 2009 a video, photos  and more explanation 

For years I have been using the “Who’s Who in African Art”, searching names and data of collectors and dealers.

Today, the “Who is Who in African Art” is available for free online on a website called Danster Research. This project is coordinated by Bruno Claessens.

The nice thing is that since it is online, the search results are instant.
You even get entries results that are phonetically close to your search, and images from the people when available.

To make Danster Project better they have a special, but interesting request:
We would like to receive photos from people who are listed in the “Who is Who in African Art”,
although there are circa 16.000 names listed, we only have ca 1.200 photos of people or galleries.

If you are interested in “the past”: provenances, data, photos etc. please contribute to these files.

1) Check the names in the Who’s Who at:
http://www.danster-research.com

2) So if you have pictures or information’s from people that are in the Who’s Who please send them to:

mailto:bruno.claessens@gmail.com?subject=(Who-is-Who)&cc=david@african-antiques.com

GIVEAWAY: Find something useful for us and you get access to a very special website(s). The first 100 people who will find 5 or more missing images, will get 6 months free in the African Art Club.

We also have a few freebies we’ll send those of you who give there address and give us interesting informations and images.

David Norden, http://www.africanartclub.com
Bruno Claessens,project coordinator at http://www.danster-research.com

in the members area some examples with the images and extra informations we found about Jan Krugier the wellknow Swiss painting dealer who died recently and had also African Art, Jacob K. Olupona, and Ivan De Pierpont and how you can  also find them and the tools I use to digg for answers, and even how to find all images related on African Art that where published in Life Magazine  :

 September 1978 Irwin Hershey started  for five years the Primitive Art Newsletter that was a paid membership newsletter sended by post. In his  volume 1, no. 2 edition of october 1978, he gave us some interesting tips and asked some good questions about provenance. His observations are still valuable today.

What Price Provenance ?

first published in the Primitive Art Newsletter  by Irwin Hershey, Editor and publisher Volume 1, No.2 October 1978

    With primitive art prices seemingly reaching highs every time you look around, provenances are growing more and more important to collectors who want to make sure the objects they’re buying are authentic and good quality .

    But does this a provenance actually insure this ?

    Experts are unanimous in their judgment that provenance do not authenticate objects, nor are they a guarantee of quality. As one expert put it”, “ALL a provenance means is that a piece was in a certain collection, or was exhibited someplace. Who owned a piece, and who bought it from him later, or the fact that it was exhibited, may not mean a thing, unless the collector involved had a first rate collection, and the piece itself is a first-rate piece. And this is seldom the case.”

Arts d’Afrique Noire recently provided a perfect example of how dangerous it is to trust the fact that an object has been exhibited – or published – in the past. More »

The Sculptor’s Eye: African and Oceanic Art from The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation

Sale: N08549 Fri, 15 May 09, 10:00 AM at Sotheby’s New York

Sotheby’s New York has scheduled a major auction of tribal art from the Gross collection of African and Oceanic Art.

May 15, 2009 is the date.

The collection was amassed by Chaim and Renee Gross during the 1940s and 1950s.

See  a 3D view of the house, more than 4OO images taken by David Norden into the house and read more,

Selected pieces from this up-coming Sotheby’s New York sale are on photo-exhibit:

View inside the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation

The Sculptor’s Eye

Sotheby’s to Offer African & Oceanic Art from the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation Collection

African Art from the Honolulu Academy’s Collection

A wooden standing female figure from the Bena Lulua tribe of the Congo (13,000.1), now on view in Gallery 22. In celebration of Black History Month, the Textile and Education departments teamed up to present a rare exhibition of African art from the Academy’s collection, like the fine Benalulua you can see on the affiche.

See a video, some of the pieces of this collection and details

The collection at the National Museum of African Art embraces diverse artistic expressions found throughout Africa — some ancient and some from contemporary times.

Here are some outstanding examples of

L’art africain des Gèlèdé tombe le masque, magie et pouvoir des mères

Les masques Gèlèdé en Bretagne