02 Mar 2010 @ 3:48 PM 

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I just updated the upcoming african art auctions page and added an interesting post about Christies http://africanartclub.com/coming-auctions/past-auctions/christies-african-art-results/ ( the recent moves of Susan  Kloman, made that the African Art departement of  Christies gained some “power” ).

Sotheby’s is doing more auctions in Paris than in New York at this moment, and they will soon sell the  Rosenthal of Oceanic Art in March, but will also host an auction of African and Oceanic Art in New York in May. You can also read about the results they got in the previous auction at http://africanartclub.com/coming-auctions/past-auctions/sothebys-african-art-top-prices/.

Zemanek 60th auction is announced for 2010, March 13, you can download catalogue as pdf or browse the online catalogue.

The African Art Club is still in Beta and gives access to insiders informations - You can still join the African Art Club for 10 € a month if you are not yet a member, at his moment there is a 1 € trial available. Do it before the price doubles...

I just updated the African Art Books astore, and for those of you who want to know more about the meaning of African art and other so-called “tribal civilisations” have a look at David Attenborough movies done for the BBC the tribal eye - part 1 to 7 –  behind the mask.

 

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Also in Paris I spotted a little auction with A few nice Oceanic clubs and headdle pulleys going on this week and a bigger auction  in San Francisco

Paris Fraysse  Jeudi 11 février à 14h00
LIVRES – GRAVURES – TABLEAUX ANCIENS ET XIXE SIÈCLE ART PRIMITIF – ART ASIATIQUE – CÉRAMIQUES – ORFÈVRERIE XVIIIE ET XIXE SIÈCLES – VIOLONS XVIIIE ET XIXE SIÈCLES

More details in the members area

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 24 Jan 2010 @ 10:19 AM 

Please find below the details of the open House party from Dave De Roche in Piedmond near San Francisco:

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 12 Jan 2010 @ 4:58 PM 

below this page in the african art club members area:

  • welcome to the new members
  • Brafa Fair african art dealers
  • auction in Tours
  •  little auction on Ebay with quality items from the Josef Herman collection.

Check also the just created new museums page and the listing with african art museums in france

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 06 Jan 2010 @ 9:41 AM 

African and Oceanic Museum Featuring the Frum collection in Canada

frum collection

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.

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 05 Dec 2009 @ 9:34 AM 

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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 21 Nov 2009 @ 2:21 PM 
Yetsang Girl (Southern Cameroons).

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

You can find this image and thousands others  at :
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 03 Nov 2009 @ 3:40 PM 
 

Power

 

Power Exhibition in Germany :

In many societies power is based on knowledge, experience, merit, and loyalty. Yet power is more Janus-faced than virtually any other phenomenon. The taking of human life in order to seize or retain power is an extreme form of expression which manifests itself most brutally during wartime. Religion has often served power, and relationships based on exchange have stabilised power structures. Indeed, trade and religion have often not only supported the status quo, they have aided and abetted, even embodied, the darker aspects of the ruling forces. Power has also always made use of art, and artists have taken power as their theme – either critically or commissioned by the powerful themselves.

From an Ethnological to a Historic Approach: The Chokwe

Figure of Chibinda Ilunga, Angola, Chokwe, 19th Century; Ethnologisches Museum, SMB. Photo: Claudia ObrockiFigure of Chibinda Ilunga, Angola, Chokwe, 19th Century; Ethnologisches Museum, SMB. Photo: Claudia Obrocki

The Chowke today live in north-western Angola and in the south-west of the Democratic Republic of Congo.The end of the slave trade in the first half of the 19th century, which had connected Africa, Europe, and America in a tight net of trade for several centuries, entailed a deep economic cut for the peoples living on the shores of Western Africa. Many communities of huntersand of refugees from the slave hunts came to wealth and political power through trade with products like Ivory and bees wax. Only in this process their identity as Chokwe emerged. Their political and economic expansion soon threatened long-established political organisations like the neighbouring kingdom of the Lunda. The numerous competing and trading leaders also bolstered their claim to power by promoting artistic expression. Chokwe artists integrated stylistic elements of the neighbouring African peoples and the Europeans into their own art and thus developed one of the most impressive styles of art of the African continent.

Contact informations to visit this exhibition:

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 10 Sep 2009 @ 5:54 AM 
NOW

American Indian & Ethnographic Art

BOSTON September 26th at 10 a.m.

Sale #2473

Preview Live

September 24-26, 2009
63 Park Plaza

Boston, MA
preview

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 02 Sep 2009 @ 9:20 PM 

Nkisi Power Figure Nkisi Power Figure- AMAM African Sculpture ExhibitionNkisi Power Figure- AMAM African Sculpture Exhibition

 

Engaging Spirits, Empowering Man: Sculpture of Central and West Africa September 1-December 23, 2009
 

 

 
 
 

 

The dynamic sculptural works exhibited here ––from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, and other African countries––were chosen from a private collection to supplement the AMAM’s permanent collection of African art, which has a strong emphasis on West African art of the Yoruba peoples.

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David Norden  Sint Katelijnevest 27. B2000 Antwerpen.

Belgium. Tel.: +32 (0)3 227.35.40


 A few African miniatures presented by David Norden in Paris at the Galerie de Buci- 73 rue de Seine. 8-13 sept.09 

Miniatures-Paris-2009Bamun (ex. Josef Herman )Bangwa royal miniature (ex. J. Herman ) Phemba-Yombe top of a staff (ex-Theo Joyal- Michael Rhodes/NYC) Baule (ex. J. Herman ) Songye (ex. J. Herman )

Let African Art protect your wealth

a text about the Tara fundation and how the British Rail pension fund invested in African Art in the 70’s and got a 11.3% yearly return

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 02 Sep 2009 @ 8:43 PM 
Important Cameroon Royal Commemorative Male Figure

Important Cameroon Royal Commemorative Male Figure

On the occasion of the 8th annual Parcours des Mondes, Christie’s Paris invites you to preview highlights from our 4 December 2009 sale: African Art: A Private Collection.
Among the works exhibited, an important Cameroon Royal Commemorative Male Figure will be on view.

Champagne Reception and Book Signing for the reprint edition of Provenance by Hermione Waterfield and J.C.H. King

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 22 Aug 2009 @ 2:14 PM 

Mossgreen auction-Aboriginal & Oceanic art

An auction with quite high estimates, but some fine material like 

Lot number: 31 a Wealth Spatula, Gabaela Massim, Southeastern New Guinea, Circa 1900 estimate 1,500$

see the catalog online:

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