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Jacaranda Tribal Art Blog is a blog for collectors of traditional African art with a focus on art from southeast Africa. We review auctions, books and other current events.
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Exhibit Explores African Art, Western Perceptions
From the Daily News Tribune. By: Chris BergeronBOSTON — To Western eyes, the mask-like faces and naked loins of carved African sculpture speak of primitive appetites from the Dark Continent.Like other kinds of colonialism, the 19th-century "discov...
DE YOUNG AGREES TO SELL WORKS FROM FRIEDE COLLECTION
By John Cote - San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco has agreed to sell 76 pieces of tribal art pledged to the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in a bid to resolve an inheritance dispute that threatens the city-owned museum's cornerstone collection of Oc...
Masterpieces of African and Oceanic Art from Barbier-Mueller Museum at Metropolitan Museum
An exhibition featuring exceptional works of African and Oceanic sculpture selected from the extensive holdings of the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva, one of Europe's preeminent private collections of non-Western art, will go on view at The Metropo...
Bonhams African and Oceanic Auction November 13, 2007
Bonhams, New York holds its inaugural New York African and Oceanic auction on November 13, 2007.Session 1 is a various owner sale comprising 269 lots. Of interest to the Southern African collector are lots 2267, 2268 and 2269. Lot 2268, estimated a...
