Whether sequestered behind glass in a museum or sold to tourists along Fifth Avenue, the African mask is an image from the non-Western world that we are all familiar with. Yet walking though the ...

Solange Mallett tours a visitor through African Plural Art, her newly opened African art gallery on Fillmore Street, and stops before two of her favorite objects in the calm, well-lit space. Both were ...

Baule mask Ivory Coast wood height: 43 in. (109 cm.) base by wood artist Kichizô Inagaki (1876–1951) (image courtesy Christie’s) Popularly known as the “Krugier-Picasso mask,” a 19th century West ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

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. A French couple ...

Click to open image viewer. The Dan call masks gle or ga and believe them to be manifestations of wild forest spirits. These spirits (du) have no form, but when they wish to use their powers to ...