On this page you will find links in the members section to the pdf’s press results comments about the past auctions at Christies related to african and oceanic art and contact informations. At this moment these auctions take place at Christies Paris.
Inside you’ll also find a link to a conversation with Peter Tillou a rare hybrid of dealer and collector. (image on the right) : “…My advice is, to the extent that you have financial ability, buy something that has quality, and buy it on the basis of love and genuine interest, rather than shopping for a mediocre thing that has a big name…”
What was the last exhibition you saw?
Whenever I am in Paris, like now, I make two pilgrimages. One to the Pavillon des Sessions, where the African and Oceanic Art (along with other ‘arts premiers’) are on view at the Louvre.The other is to the Musée du Quai Branly, the new museum created by President Jacques Chirac and dedicated to these fields. I always leave feeling very philosophical, asking myself Gauguin’s question: D’où venons-nous? / Qui sommes-nous? / Où allons-nous? (Where do we come from? / Who are we? / Where are we going?) Just before coming to Paris, I saw Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC which explores the intersection between photography and African art. I loved it!…
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