La Collection Deletaille

Fang Reliquary Head from the Arman Collection

An anthropologist in the land of the Ammassalik

Robert Gessain Collection

Miniature Worlds. The Jean-Louis Danis Collection

Paris

SVP | Global Head of African & Oceanic Art | New York

Alexander Grogan

Head of Department | African & Oceanic Art | Europe

Emilie Salmon

Deputy Director, Specialist | African & Oceanic Art | Europe

Simon Meynen

Assistant Vice President, Specialist | New York

Paul Lewis

Consultant, Specialist | Pre-Columbian Art

Stacy Goodman

Administrator

Lucie Ronzevalle

Associate Project Manager

Camille Hamant

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The international team of the African and Oceanic department is delighted to present Sotheby’s annual Paris sale of Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas. The sale will present a group of Pre-Columbian Art, including works from the Collection Deletaille Part II and from various European owners. The Robert Gessain Collection, an anthropologist in the land of the Ammassalik will represent the traditional Art of the Greenland and the Arctic.&nbsp; The section of the sale devoted to African Art will highlight emblematic masterpieces by master sculptors from Sub-Saharan Africa, including a remarkable Fang Head from the collection of French artist Arman, an important Bete/Guro Mask, but also a well documented Nsapo-Nsapo Maternity from Paul Timmermans Collection. Small objects from Central Africa, charms, statuettes, and ivory figures will be represented by Miniature Worlds, the Jean-Louis Danis Collection. The sale will also include a chapter dedicated to Oceanic Art featuring works from Melanesia and Polynesia, including a group of Jacques Viot / Pierre Loeb Maro from André Lefebvre Collection and an iconic and beautiful Kanak Door.

Arts d'Afrique, d'Océanie et des Amériques