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RIGHT: Idol. Cyclades
Islands. Early Cycladic I.
3000–2800 BC.
White marble. H: 18.5 cm.
Musée Barbier-Mueller, inv. 202-4.
© ABM. Photo: Studio Ferrazzini-
Bouchet.
LEFT: Standing fi gure.
Yombe, DRC. 1880.
Wood, cord, fabric, fi ber. H: 32.5 cm.
Ex Klaus Clausmeyer (1887–1968),
Düsseldorf; Rautenstrauch-Joest-
Museum, Cologne; Loed Van Bussel,
Amsterdam (acquired by exchange
with the Rautenstrauch-Joest-
Museum in 1978); Vandevelde
Collection, Antwerp.
To be offered by Galerie Bacquart at
La Biennale, Paris.
© Hughes Dubois.
lection will be complemented by a selection of other
Oceanic artworks, including a Korwar sculpture collected
by surrealist Jacques Viot in 1929 and a group of artworks
from various Eskimo cultures of the Arctic.
In addition to the exhibiting dealers, tribal art will enjoy
a particularly prominent place at the Biennale this year
thanks to a special exhibition honoring the Barbier-Mueller
family that will be held there. Their engagement with the
arts has spanned four generations of collectors and led to
the creation of a museum in Geneva dedicated to tribal
art, which is celebrating its fortieth anniversary this year.
Frieze Masters
LONDON—The arts of Africa, Oceania, Asia, and the
Americas will once again be well represented at Frieze
Masters, an outstanding fair dedicated to modern and
historic art that will be held from October 5–8, 2017,
in Regent’s Park, concurrent with Frieze London and
Frieze Projects. Faithful exhibitors at the event include
Galerie Entwistle, Galerie Meyer, and Galerie de
Grunne, whose fi ne displays always provide satisfying
aesthetic opportunities.
After his success there last year, Donald
Ellis will return to the fair with a thematic
exhibition titled Two Thousand Years of
Inuit Art. Within this collection of remarkable
artworks will be a Yup’ik mask that
once belonged to surrealist Enrico Donati,
one of the fi nest examples known in private
hands. He will also feature an ancient
Okvik sculpted ivory head, as well as creations
by eminent twentieth-century artists
including John Pangnark (1920–1980),
Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok (1934–2012),
and Andy Miki (1918–1983). The arts of
North America will also be represented by
Galerie Monbrison, which will offer a fi ne
ABOVE: Malagan fi gure.
Bismarck Archipelago.
Wood, pigment, fi ber. H: 164 cm.
Ex Grand Duke de Baden;
Völkerkundliche Sammlungen der
Stadt Mannheim; Arthur Speyer,
Berlin.
Musée Barbier-Mueller, inv. 4344.
© ABM. Photo: Studio Ferrazzini-
Bouchet.
RIGHT: Figurine. Okhotsk
culture, Khabarovsk,
eastern Russia.
AD 600–1600.
Walrus ivory. H: 15 cm.
To be offered by Galerie Martin
Doustar at Frieze Masters, London.
La Biennale des Antiquaires
PARIS—The prestigious fair that has long been held every
two years in the incomparable Grand Palais venue
no longer needs any introduction. As of this year, it becomes
an annual event and will be held this year from
September 11–17, 2017. Notable tribal art dealers will
be some of the fair’s more than eighty-six participants,
among them Yann Ferrandin, who has shown at several
of these events. He will once again offer material that
will meet the criteria of even the most exacting collectors
with a selection of highly refi ned artworks. Specialized
in the arts of Africa and
Oceania, Jean-Baptiste
Bacquart’s display will
feature some twelve major
works with prestigious provenances, including a Kota
reliquary fi gure attributed to the sculptor Semangoy,
who was active in the nineteenth century.
Another tribal art exhibitor is Galerie Meyer – Oceanic
& Eskimo Art, which, for its second showing at La
Biennale, will present an exhibition devoted to the sculptures
of the Korewori River region of Papua New Guinea,
which were found in the late 1950s in caves where they
had lain dormant, in many cases for centuries. This col-
BELOW: Snow goggles. Punuk, Bering Sea, Alaska.
AD 500–1000.
Marine ivory. To be offered by Donald Ellis Gallery at Frieze Masters, London.