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Showing posts with label BRAFA 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BRAFA 2014. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
What a Mask Can Say: Thoughts on the Iconography of a RMCA Luba Masterpiece
The famous horned Luba helmet mask collected by Oscar Michaux in the 1890s is one of the most important pieces in the collection of the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Many questions are raised by this work of mysterious beauty. In a special lecture held on January 29 as part of BRAFA 2014, scholar Julien Volper will develop a number of themes arising from his detailed study of the mask.
Thursday, January 9, 2014
BRAFA 2014
From January 25 through February 2, 2014, Tours & Taxis will be the setting for the Brussels Antiques and Fine Arts Fair (BRAFA), which promises, as always, to be of great interest to Belgian collectors as well as international visitors. Tribal art will be represented this year by ten dealers and galleries: Pierre Dartevelle, Bernard Dulon, Yann Ferrandin, Jacques Germain, Bernard de Grunne, Sarah de Monbrison, Adrian Schlag, Serge Schoffel, and Galerie Schoffel-Valluet, as well as by the event’s vice president, Didier Claes.
For more information, visit www.brafa.be
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