MARCHÉ de l’art 30 FAR LEFT: Mask, pwo. Tshokwe, Angola. Wood, metal, fi ber, beads. H: 24.5 cm. To be offered by Galerie Lucas Ratton at TEFAF. LEFT: Corn goddess Chicomecoatl. Aztec, Mexico. To be offered by Galerie 1492 at TEFAF. BELOW CENTER: Shoulder mask. Jukun, Nigeria. To be offered by Entwistle Gallery at TEFAF. BELOW: Rug (detail). Ningxia, Western China. To be offered by Tribal Rugs Gallery at LARTA, London. BOTTOM: Rug. Yomut, Turkmenistan. To be offered by Tribal Rugs Gallery at LARTA, London. Marcia and John Friede Collection. Further on, Galerie Meyer will offer a selection of carefully chosen masks, figures, architectural elements, and utilitarian objects from Oceania and the Arctic, including an important New Caledonian mask, an Asmat trumpet unusual for having two small legs, and a fine Eskimo drum handle. Lastly, after having put on a display focusing on Dayak art from Borneo last year, Bernard de Grunne will turn to Africa this year with a show of objects that most notably will include a superb Kaniok Luba headrest from the Democratic Republic of Congo and an elegant seated Baule figure from Côte d’Ivoire. As it has in recent years, the Showcase section of the fair will include a tribal art gallery. Normandy gallery owner Laurent Dodier was selected this year, and he will do justice to his nomination to this group of excellence with a display devoted to the classical arts of Oceania and Africa. Among the artworks he plans to present are an important seated Baule asie usu fi gure from Côte d’Ivoire formerly in the Charles Schanté Collection in Paris, an Obamba reliquary guardian fi gure from Gabon, and a pair of Maori fi gures from New Zealand formerly in the collection of renowned actress Sarah Bernhardt. LARTA London—The sixth annual London Antique Rug and Textile Fair (LARTA) will be held April 15–17 in the dynamic art and culture space known as “The Showroom.” This small-format fair opened in 2011 under the direction of London dealer Aaron Nejad and hosts specialists from all over Great Britain, who bring their finest textiles and rugs to show there. Prices here are often very reasonable, and this year the price range announced by the event’s organizers is from £500–25,000. It should come as no surprise that increasing numbers of decorators, collectors, and art aficionados all attend this fair, which places special emphasis on the non-European arts.
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