Please find below the details of the open House party from Dave De Roche in Piedmond near San Francisco:
Dear members of the african art club,
Find below some of the images I have taken during the Brafa show on the stands. The Brafa is happening in Tours and Taxis in Brussels and ends on Januari 31 2010. At the opening reception there was slightly less visitors than last year, but all dealers where quite happy and sold many objects.
I have taken pictures of the nicest objects on the stands of Claes Gallery, Pierre Dartevelle, Galerie Jacques Germain, Galerie Bernard Dulon, POM (Patrick & Ondine Mestdagh), Galerie Serge Schoffel.
images of dealer and objects and contact addresses:
Drouot just created a new kind of auctions, the online auctions, where you can bid online.
These objects can only be bought online
Rossini is doing the first one that will close on februari 1, 2010.
ART D’AMERIQUE DU NORD,D’AFRIQUE, D’ASIE, ET D’OCEANIE
COLLECTION DE COIFFURES MILITAIRES MINIATURES PAR SANDRE
COLLECTION DE BRONZES DE VIENNES COLLECTION D’EVENTAILS
The quality of the pictures and small selection of pieces is quite weak, but it is an interesting concept
Details about this auction for the members inside
Turkana. Winterton Collection of East African Photographs, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies
EVANSTON, Ill. — June2009- last year– for the first time ever — a searchable collection of thousands of rare photographs chronicling Europe’s colonization of East Africa becomes available to anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world, …
Trance Diviner’s figure, “African, Baule peoples, Ivory Coast”, 19th century. Wood, beads, and cloth, 19 ½ x 5 ¼ x 6 inches. Promised gift of Adele and Donald Hall in honor of the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 10.2007.2.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art today announced a promised gift of seven extraordinary works of African art from the private collection of longtime Museum patrons Adele and Donald Hall, in honor of the Museum’s 75th Anniversary.
More about the donation and a portrait of MR. & Mrs. Hall & further informations about this Gift of Stellar African Works of Art
below this page in the african art club members area:
Check also the just created new museums page and the listing with african art museums in france
GENEVA – They have always been known as primitive arts specialists, or even as book lovers. Now the Barbier-Mueller family presents another side of its appetite for beautiful things: jewels and ore. In this dynasty characterized for over a century by a «collecting disease», the patriarch, Joseph Mueller, is followed by his great grandson, Alexis Barbier-Mueller.
The former acquired before WW II certain jewels presented here (Polynesian ear ornament in sperm whale tooth or a Cameroonian ivory bracelet), while the latter has headed towa rds minerals, including quartz, schist, malachite and lapis-lazuli.
«Jewels by man» and «Jewels from the Earth» are confronted in a «contamination» practice which has been tested since the « cabinets de curiosités” and the Surrealists: crystals are side by side with Maya pendants, necklaces from Mesopotamia and head dresses from Tibet.
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.
See more images and information in the members area.
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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