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An antiques dealer who sold a rare African mask for $4.6 million won a legal battle with the elderly couple who sold it to him for $165 without realizing the treasure’s actual worth.
Two of three undergraduate researchers studying the Burke Museum’s African collection stood beside seven floor-to-ceiling ...
The 88-year-old and his 81-year-old wife, identified by their initials in court documents but confirmed to CNN as Mr. and Mrs. Fournier by their lawyer, listed for sale an ancient African mask ...
The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey hosted a Juneteenth Bazaar and Show on Thursday at The Noyes Arts ...
A second-hand dealer has won a case to keep the €4.2m (£3.6m; $4.6m) proceeds from the sale of a rare African mask he found in an elderly French couple's attic. He had been brought in to help ...
On view June 21 through Jan. 21, 2025, “Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross” will feature works by the artist from 1966 through 1978, a period when he completed multiple commissions for the ...
On the African masks, he said the images were taken mainly from his many copies of the African Arts journal, a renowned publication founded in 1967. Perhaps the journal connects Okwuosa and the ...