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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "African Primitives: Function & Form in African Masks and Figures" by G.W. Sannes, "Nigerian Pottery: A Catalogue compiled by Sylvia Leith-Ross", "Kunst aus dem Alten Afrika" by Maria Kecsk

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "African Majesty From Grasslands and Forest" by William Fagg, "Visions of Africa: Bamana" by Jean-Paul Colleyn, "Art of the Dogon: Selections from the Lester Wunderman Collection", etc. Som

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "The Art of Africa: Masks and Figures from Eastern and Southern Africa" by Ladislav Holy, "African Art & Leadership" edited by Douglas Fraser and Herbert M. Cole, "African Dolls Afrikanisch

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "Ituri: The Distribution of Polychrome Masks in Northeast Zaire" by Marc L. Felix, "Isn't S/He A Doll?: Play and Ritual in African Sculpture" by Elisabeth L. Cameron, "Bamana: The Art of Ex

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "Arms and Armor in Africa" by Helmut Nickel, "Visions from the Forests: The Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone", "Senufo Unbound: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa" by Susan Elizabet

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "Art of Equatorial Guinea: The Fang Tribes" by Louis Perrois and Marta Sierra Delage, "Surfaces: Color, Substances, and Ritual Applications on African Sculpture", "African Sculpture" by War

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "The Rock Paintings of Tassili" by Jean-Dominique Lajoux, "African Kings" by Daniel Laine, "Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures" by Alisa LaGamma, etc. Some may be in Engl

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "White Gold, Black Hands: Ivory Sculpture in Congo Vol. 1", edited by Marc Leo Felix, "Collecting African Art" by Werner Gillon, "Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens" by Wendy A. G

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "Column to volume: Formal innovation in Chamba statuary" by Richard Fardon and Christine Stelzig, "Les Masques" by Andreas Lommel, "Ornament and Sculpture in Primitive Society" etc. Some ma

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "The Art of Collecting African Art", "Close Up: Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Art" by Jerry Thompson & Susan Vogel, "Visions of Africa: The Jerome L. Joss Collection of African Art a

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "African Masks" by Robert Bleakley, "Yoruba: Sculpture of West Africa" by William Fagg & John Pemberton, "Africa and the Renaissance: Art in Ivory" by Ezio Bassani & William Fagg, etc. Some

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "Ceremonial Art of West Africa from the Victor DuBois Collection", "Introduction to African Arts of Kenya, Zaire, and Nigeria" by Fred J. Parrott, "Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection: Exh

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "Igbo Arts: Community and Cosmos" by Herbert M. Cole & Chike C. Aniakor, "Elephant: The Animal and its Ivory in African Culture" edited by Doran H. Ross, "African Masterpieces from The Muse

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "African Masterpieces From Munich: The Staatliches Museum Fur Volkerkunde", "Sculpture in Ghana" by Vincent Akwete Kofi, "The Art of Southeast Africa: From the Conru Collection", etc. Some

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "African Art: The Barbier-Mueller Collection" edited by Werner Schmalenbach, "African Faces, African Figures: The Arman Collection", "The Last of the Nuba" by Leni Riefenstahl, etc. Some ma

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "Objects: Signs of Africa" edited by Luc de Heusch, "Journey Up The Nile" by Robert Caputo, "In the Presence of Spirits: African Art from the National Museum of Ethnology, Lisbon", etc. Som

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.

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To include "African Miniatures: The Goldweights of the Ashanti" by Margaret Webster Plass, "African Goldweights: Miniature Sculptures from Ghana 1400 - 1900" by Tom Phillips, "Designs and Patterns from North African Carpets & Textiles" by Jacques Revault, etc. Some may be in English, German, French, etc. All in as-found condition. Provenance: Estate of Thomas McNemar, (1931-2020.) McNemar lived and collected throughout Central and West Africa in the 1960s and 70s. He established galleries of African Art in New York and San Francisco, selling to museums and public and private collections in the United States and Europe.

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.

Name: 13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.
Brand: Tom Phillips
SKU: 140713814
Price: 420 USD
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