African Art Club

The month of December 2010 is quite active with many African Art dealers exhibitions and auctions going on in Paris

African Art Dealers in Paris

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Starting often at 5$ this little estate auction in Ohio has many interesting pieces (online auction bidding ending November 21, 2010):

the estate of prominent Cincinnati physician Dr. Roland Shirley and respected Cincinnati artist, Rosemary Shirley. The Shirley’s, close friends of Charley and Edie Harper, were avid collectors of the artwork of both Charley and Edie, in addition to other mid 20th century artists, antique African art, Japanese swords and decorative arts, Pre Columbian artifacts, Native American decorative arts, mid century furnishings and antiquities. Highlights of the sale include 5 original paintings by well listed Cincinnati, Ohio artist Charley Harper, original and serigraph artwork by Charley, Edie and Brett Harper as well as a number of other listed artists, including Hideo Hagiwara, Kiyoshi Saito, Frank Webb, Calvin Burnett, Kaarou Kamano, Kaiko Moti, Ikki Matsumoto, Jun’ichiro Sekino, and Don Baker. The Shirley’s were also avid collectors of fine decorative arts from Japan, Africa, Pre-Columbian societies, the United States and Europe. Japanese decorative arts highlights feature 15th – 20th century Japanese swords, 18th, 19th and 20th century ivory and wooden netsukes, a variety of ivory figures, lacquered Inro boxes, a framed piece of carved ivory panels with monkeys playing, 19th century Japanese furniture, and more.

African decorative arts highlights include a wide range of carved antique tribal masks, a Nupe door fragment, Senofu bronze pieces, Ashanti figural and geometric gold weights, jewelry, Maasai spears and a shield, and more. The Pre Columbian collection includes wonderful stone effigies and amulets, as well as pottery figures from the Jalisco, Mezcala, Huetar, Chupicuaro, Colima, Narino, Xochipala, Manabi-Bahia, and Chorotega cultures, many include certificates of authenticity from various galleries and museum collections.

The American collection includes a rare earl to mid 19th century Cherokee effigy pipe, Cherokee amulets, Tlingit cane and carvings, and Inuit carvings, late 19th century and vintage toys including Schoenhut, cast metal toys, wind up tin toys, mohair toys, an enormous late 19th century Beaux Arts Bronze-wash Spelter Marcel Debut Newel Post Lamp and more.

The European collection includes a variety of Danish and Swedish mid century modern pieces, rare militaria, including a Napoleonic Wars era Irish made coconut canteen, inlaid with pewter and glass and with scrimshaw style decoration, a circa 1750, probably French, burl wood powder flask, a World War One era inlaid box, made by a German prisoner of war, in an English POW camp, fine mid 20th century German China, a selection of German and Spanish inlaid and carved boxes. The sale also includes a nice selection of fine jewelry, including Victorian and modern pieces, also includes fun antique trade bead necklaces, Japanese and Chinese jewelry, African jewelry, hand cast modern jewelry and more. There is simply too much to list …

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Auction African & Oceanic Art – 4 – 10 November 2010

Our inaugural sale of Tribal Art will be held in November 2010.  This sale will include “pre-contact” figures, masks and jewellery from Africa, Oceania and South America.  All items will be on view on our website and in our Kensington gallery. Found some very  interesting lots ith low estimates and good quality . The expert is the well known book author  ...