ART IN MOTION
Auctions and Shows
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Canadian gallery owner Jacques Germain has been a
consistent participant since 2010 and will cross the Atlantic
once again to present a selection of major and traditional
African works. He has announced that he will be focusing
on works from Côte d’Ivoire this year, offering a number of
Senufo, Bété, and Anyi works. Serge Schoffel also returns
this year and will be showing a group of important African
pieces, including a Fang reliquary guardian fi gure, as well
as a wide variety of Oceanic works, including an especially
old Ewa sculpted wooden head from the Karawari River
area of Papua New Guinea, and a refi ned Maori hei-tiki
jade pendant. A number of headdresses and ornaments
from New Guinea, formerly in the collection of John Friede
and which will be illustrated in a forthcoming book on the
subject that the gallery is publishing, will also be on hand.
The galleries of uncle and nephew Charles and Philippe
Ratton will share a booth at BRAFA this year as an homage
to the Ratton family dealer dynasty, of which they represent
the second and third generations. The fi rst fi gure in
this saga was, of course, Charles Ratton, a profoundly signifi
cant fi gure in the history of the tribal art market, whose
aesthetic taste and groundbreaking efforts will be celebrated
with a selection of tribal artworks complemented by
canvases by his close friend, Jean Dubuffet.
Finally, BRAFA will host the Guilhem Montagut Gallery
for the fi rst time this year. Based in Barcelona and well
known on the international tribal art market for participating
in BRUNEAF and Parcours des Mondes, the objects he
will offer at this prestigious venue will be commensurate
with the event’s importance and consist of some twenty
major African artworks, among which a Kwele mask from
Gabon and several Dogon sculptures are particularly worthy
of mention.
ABOVE: Bracelet.
Edo, Nigeria.
Ivory. H: 12 cm.
Ex Rudolf and Leonore Blum,
Switzerland.
To be offered by Galerie Monbrison at
BRAFA, January 27–February 4, 2018.
BELOW: Initiation mask.
Yaka, DR Congo.
Wood, pigment, fi ber. H: 85 cm.
Private collection, Belgium.
To be offered by Galerie Didier Claes at
BRAFA, January 27–February 4, 2018.
BOTTOM LEFT:
Mask. Dan, Côte d’Ivoire.
19th century.
Wood. H: 22 cm.
Ex Carlo Monzino (1931–1996).
To be offered by Galerie Yann Ferrandin
at BRAFA, January 27–February 4, 2018.
LEFT, TOP TO BOTTOM:
Reliquary guardian fi gure.
Sango, Gabon.
Wood, copper alloy. H: 47 cm.
Collected near Mekambo by Daniel
Henriot in 1940.
To be offered by Galerie Dartevelle at
BRAFA, January 27–February 4, 2018.
Mask. Bété-Guro,
Côte d’Ivoire. C. 1850.
Wood. H: 24.8 cm.
Ex Léonce-Pierre Guerre, Marseille.
To be offered by Galerie Bernard
de Grunne at BRAFA, January 27–
February 4, 2018.
Mask. Lower Sepik or Ramu
River, Papua New Guinea.
Late 19th–early 20th century.
Wood. H: 50 cm.
To be offered by Galerie Schoffel de
Fabry at BRAFA, January 27–
February 4, 2018.
1 December 2017
Pre-Columbian Art
Binoche et Giquello, Paris
www.binocheetgiquello.com
2 December 2017
American Indian and Ethnographic Art
Skinner, Boston
www.skinnerinc.com
4 December 2017
Native American Art
Bonhams, San Francisco
www.bonhams.com
5 December 2017
African & Oceanic Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles
www.bonhams.com
9 December 2017
Prix International du Livre d’Art Tribal
Sotheby’s, Paris
www.prixpilat.com
12 December 2017
Arts of Africa and Oceania
Sotheby’s, Paris
www.sothebys.com
20 December 2017
Native American, Pre-Columbian, Oceanic,
and Primitive Art
Eve, Paris
www.auctioneve.com
23–28 January 2018
LARTA
Battersea Park, London
www.larta.net
24–28 January 2018
Winter BRUNEAF
Sablon, Brussels
www.bruneaf.com
27 January–4 February 2018
BRAFA
Tour & Taxis, Brussels
www.brafa.be
31 January 2018
Art of Africa, the Pacifi c, and the Americas
Lempertz, Brussels
www.lempertz.com
8–11 February 2018
San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show
Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center,
San Francisco
sanfranciscotribalandtextileartshow.com
17–18 February 2018
The American Indian Art Show–Marin
Marin Civic Center, San Rafael
www.marinshow.com
21 February 2018
Tribal Art & Antiquities
Woolley & Wallis Salerooms,
Salisbury, UK
www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk
10 March 2018
Tribal Art Auction
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg
www.tribal-art-auktion.de
20 March 2018
Pre-Columbian Art
Binoche et Giquello, Paris
www.binocheetgiquello.com
21 March 2018
Tribal Art
Binoche et Giquello, Paris
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