



Dear African Art Club Members,
I updated the auction list with 12 auctions going on in the month of June and give you some of the key events at the Bruneaf that is opening next wednesday at 3 pm





Price realized: €547,000 December 2008, Paris
Susan Kloman developed her passion for African and Oceanic art while obtaining her Master of Arts degree in Art History.





Fang Mask, Gabon. Estimate: 70,000—100,000 EUR. Photo: Sotheby’s.
see also the coming african art auctions agenda
PARIS.- The success of the sales of African & Oceanic Art in New York on May 15 shows that collectors’ interest in rare objects in this field remains strong whatever the price-level. The two auctions




L’Afrique opens at Museum Africa – city of Johannesburg – South Africa |
The collections of Maria Stein-Lessing and Leopold Spiegel are the first exhibition in the new African art wing at Museum Africa, opened to mark Africa Day. |
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I think you will find the article below interesting. Iam curious to see if the high estimates will bring high bidders ? Let see the results of the auction tomorrow. For those interested in meeting me, I …
newsletter for members. May 14, 2009




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Email David Norden your African Masks request of availabilityto see the mask exhibition click here More » |




Thursday 14 May 2009
3 p.m >> 9.30 p.m
you are invited by Alain Naoum (read the interview)




Persona Mask Exhibition TervuerenPersona. Ritual masks and contemporary art in the Africa Museum RMCA in Tervueren from April 24th, 2009 to January 3rd, 2010
Persona (buy the catalog) Anne-Marie Bouttiaux…
official site: www.africamuseum.be/persona
Perfect to view in combination with the bruneaf fair (3-7 june 2009)
The exhibition features …




BRUNEAF XIX
3 – 7 Juni 2009
Vernissage :
Wednesday June 3rd 2009 from 3 pm precisely till 9 pm
Exposition :
Thursday June 4th from 11 am till 7 pm
Friday June 5th from 11 am till 8 pm
Saturday June 6th from 11 am till 7 pm
Sunday June 7th from 11 am till 5 pm
Bruneaf is the only african art organisation with it’s own Bruneaf Marcolini chocolates.




When I see that high end dealers like at www.paceprimitive.com promote accessibly priced pieces of great quality starting at 3,600 $, and that some Bruneaf dealers like Jo de Buck are holding Blowout Bargain Sales I begin to ask myself questions, and you?
PACE PRIMITIVE FEATURED PIECES April-May 2009




To Gods, Spirits and Ancestors – Art from Africa in HRH The Prince Consort’s private collection

1 MAY 2009
Ever since he was a child Prince Henrik has been fascinated by African art. So to celebrate his 75th birthday the spouse of Queen Margrethe of Denmark decided to give art fans a glimpse at favourite pieces from the extensive collection he’s built up over the years.
The France-born royal – who celebrates his milestone birthday on June 11 – has selected 200 sculptures and masks to feature in a special exhibition entitled To Gods, Spirits And Ancestors – Art From Africa.




“Women in African Art” Femmes dans les Arts D’Afrique – Museum Dapper Paris
Gender relations and mythology shape an exhibition of female figures from all over Africa, writes Philippe Dagen in Le Monde
From Thursday, October 9 2008 to Sunday, July 12 2009

From birth to marriage, often multiple child-bearing and finally old age, women in Africa (and in a number of rural or tribal societies) have a peculiar position.




This is quite good book about an exhibition that just finished, if you like small ethnoraphic objects like african combs, I recommend reading this book. You can read it online at books.google.com, or if you like me, enjoy hardcover books, you can buy the book on Amazon: african art world bank
Read also:
This first catalogue featuring pieces from the World Bank’s permanent art collection focuses on African traditional artwork–textiles, sculptures, pottery, and paintings as well as functional objects–from the Maghreb to Mali and from the former Zaire to Zambia. Three essays accompanying the photographs provide threads on how to interpret historical, social, and religious meaning in these works of art.


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