Q: How and when did you get started in the field of African art?
A: I grew up in Manhattan, a few blocks from the American Museum of Natural History, where I spent a lot of time as a child. I fell in love with nature and wildlife there and spent hours gazing at the [...]
Sometimes the African art trade is just that: trading one object for another or two for one and so on, occasionally with money thrown in and often enough without. One dealer friend has made such a habit of it that he seems to hardly ever sell anything without receiving an object in the bargain. In [...]
Over the course of several weeks I lived in a modern house near the president’s mansion in northern Togo. One Saturday I set off on a long walk with a friend to visit a market in the hills east of the main, national highway that passed by our house. I’d never visited the hills even [...]
Tags: Togo, West Africa
A dealer friend who travels a great deal, swapping pieces with collectors and dealers on both sides of the Atlantic not to mention both coasts of the United States, will often comment on fragmentary African sculpture in my gallery by saying, “you’d do better with that in Europe.” His words are backed up by any [...]
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