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The gallery specializes in ancient arts from Africa, Indonesia, Nepal and Oceania.
Alain Bovis, expert and member of the Syndicat National des Antiquaires, and Véronique du Lac, director of the gallery and art historian, will be pleased to share with you their favorites and their discoveries, and will provide you with all the information and guarantees required.
Contact
9 rue des Beaux-Arts, 75006 Paris
Phone: +33 (0)1 56 24 09 25
galerie.alainbovis@wanadoo.fr
Mask
Papua New Guinea
Parak, mouth of the Sepik
Wood, pig teeth, pigments
Height 41cm
Early 20th century
Origin Koos Knol, Netherlands
Photo Vincent Luc – Phar Agency
Mask nwantantay
Burkina Faso
Bwa, Wood, polychrome
Height 195cm
Early 20th centuryProvenance Jean-Pierre Jernander, Brussels
Exhibited and published in
Upper Volta, Henri Kamer, Brussels, 1973
Utotombo. Black African Art in Belgian Private Collections,
Brussels, 1988
Photo Mathieu Ferrier
Fetish
Democratic Republic of Congo
Kongo, wood, fabric, glass, seeds, ritual charge
Height 21cm
Late 19th – early 20th century
Posted in Bakongo. "The Fetishes", Abla and Alain Lecomte, 2016
Photo Mathieu Ferrier
Contact
9 rue des Beaux-Arts, 75006 Paris
Phone: +33 (0)1 56 24 09 25
galerie.alainbovis@wanadoo.fr