Schoffel de Fabry Gallery

FOROWA / KUDUO AKAN

GHANA, IVORY COAST

Bronze – Copper alloy
Diameter: 19 cm – 7.48 in / Height: 12.5 cm – 4.92 in
Provenance: Sotheby's, London, June 27, 1966, reproduced as lot 151. Charles Ratton
Publication: Ivory Coast: First Glimpses of Sculpture 1850-1935, Bertrand Goy, 2012, page 15

For over 30 years, the Schoffel de Fabry Gallery has embodied the renewal of a family of antiquities dealers specializing in Tribal Art, involved since the 1960s and enjoying international renown. The expertise of two generations has contributed to the development of significant collections, both private and institutional, including those of the Dapper Foundation, the Louvre Museum, the Barbier-Muller Museum, and more recently, the Quai Branly Museum, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and the Gandur Foundation. The gallery extends its expertise to the arts of Oceania, Africa, North America, and Southeast Asia, as well as to interdisciplinary exhibition projects. Judith Schoffel de Fabry and Christophe de Fabry have given the gallery a highly dynamic direction through their exhibitions and historical publications. The Schoffel de Fabry Gallery organizes and participates in numerous site-specific and off-site art exhibitions, including Jackson Pollock and Shamanism at the Pinacothèque de Paris in 2008, Victor Brauner and Primitive Art in October 2010, and Return from Expedition at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in 2012. Since 2010, it has participated in BRAFA and the Parcours des Mondes since its inception, as well as KAOS in September 2002. Judith Schoffel de Fabry was elected President of the CNE, the National Company of Art Experts, in 2021.

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