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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.

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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 "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.

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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. Grossman, 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.

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SKU: 140713828
Price: 95 USD
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