Bernard de Grunne Tribal Fine Arts
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Paris Tribal 2022
9 - 13 March 2022 Créé à l’initiative des marchands de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris Tribal réunit chaque année une trentaine de galeries spécialisées dans les arts d’Afrique, d’Amérique, de l’Himalaya, d’Indonésie et d’Océanie. Salon à ciel... -
Lega, Masques éburnéens / On Lega Ivory Masks
Exhibition catalogue, Spring Bruneaf 2021, Brussels June 16, 2021 Since the first years of the Twentieth century, Lega ivory masks have fascinated both artists, poets, collectors, and dealers. This major axis of fascination happened between the three cities of Antwerpen, Brussels and Paris, a fitting parallel to the golden triangle of Lega art located between Pangi, Kama and Shabunda, The history of the discovery of some major ivory masks seems a worthy topic. Bernard de Grunne's selection of thirtyseven masks is unindubitably a fairly complete 'catalogue raisonné' of important Lega masks.
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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.
