Bernard de Grunne Tribal Fine Arts
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NEWS
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TEFAF Maastricht 2020
7 - 15 March 2020 This year Bernard de Grunne celebrates his 20th participation to TEFAF Maastricht, and as per every year a collection of important masterpieces carefully selected will be presented. -
DAN Dancing with Spoons
Bernard de Grunne - Hans Himmelheber - Eberhard Fischer 2019“Those ceremonial spoons, called Wa Ke Mia ("spoon associated with feasts"), are the badges of prestige of the Wunkirle – the most hospitable woman in a village or village quarter – and they embody her talents and her generosity. The largeness of the spoon’s receptacle demonstrates the Wunkirle’s generosity, as it reveals the amount of rice she is willing to give."
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DAN Dancing with Spoons at TEFAF Maastricht 2019
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About
Bernard de GrunneBernard de Grunne has been immersed in the world of great tribal sculpture for more than 40 years as he actively accompanied his father Baudouin de Grunne in building one of the finest collection of Tribal art in Europe from 1968 to 1995. He studied the art of Congo under the legendary Dr. Albert Maesen Chief Curator of the Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren and has earned a Ph.D. in African Art History with Professor Robert Faris Thomson at Yale University in 1987. He became the worldwide head of the Tribal Art department at Sotheby's from 1987 to 1992 setting a world-record price at auction for the Bangwa queen sold to the Dapper Museum.
