African Art Club

We have just uploaded a new auction of Fine Tribal, African and Ethnographic Art, Pre-Columbian, Classical and Asian Antiquities to our website Arte Primitivo Gallery

287. Fang Figure Small sized Fang guardian figure carved of darkly stained hardwood, standing with stylized hands clasped at belly. Legs and support leg are covered by well worn, burlap textured fetish cloth. Rounded head bears brass tack eyes, squared coiffure exposing domed forehead and c shaped ears and several beaded strands around neck and waist. Tip of right foot reattached, else exc.9-1/2”H.Private Illinois collection.

Dear friends,

September was a quite good month with a successfull show in Paris and I have seen back many of my old friends , and learned to know new customers.

October has some new auction s going on, you can find the details below, like the one on thursday 29 october 2009 selling this big beautiful Yoruba 52 cm high (click the image to enlarge) with only an estimate of (€ 3,350). If you  want the details you’ll need to be a member of this club. You can give it a try for only 1 €.

FROM THE JOHN PERRY COLLECTION A cabinet of curiosities
Tuesday August 18 2009 Auction

John Perry Cabinet

John Perry is recognized as one of New Zealand’s leading authorities on ethnographica, social history, folk art and plenty else besides. John has held senior roles as a director of a public museum to his world famous in New Zealand Helensville emporium Global Village Antiques. A+O is delighted to be able to offer a selection from his vast collection as a ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’. These are in the main rare and unusual smaller gems of folk art, NZ ceramics, photography, Pacificana, artefacts, Oriental pieces and the hard to explain. This will be a catalogue and auction to remember.

Members of this group can read the details see more images and links to the pdf catalog below

Ethnographic Art Auction
Monday, April 6, 2009

A little auction USA with +/- 350 lots most of them without limit and estimated below 200 €.

From the estate of scholar and art collector Jean-Pierre Hallet.
Download the pdf catalogue and read more