Bernard de Grunne Tribal Fine Arts
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Parcours des Mondes 2020
8 - 13 September 2020 Since almost twenty years, Parcours des Mondes is the most important art fair worldwide, dedicated to Non-Western and Asian cultures and Archeology. The fair gathers each year at the beginning... -
Tiki from the Marquesas Islands at Parcours des Mondes 2020
Tiki des îles Marquises à Parcours des Mondes 2020 This exceptional statue called Tiki comes from the Marquesas Islands, an archipelago located a 1500 km away from Northern Tahiti. At the beginning this Tiki represented the founding ancestor of... -
Songye Kifwebe
Exhibition catalogue TEFAF Maastricht 2020 March 4, 2020
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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.
