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Unmasking Masks

February 22 2012 - January 13 2013


masque

Our starting point was an obvious fact: the general public has a passion for masks. We therefore selected a hundred pieces with various...

Ancestral Art of Gabon

May 9, 2011 - February 5, 2012
Exerting a great fascination first on sailors, then from the 20th century onwards on Western artists and collectors seduced by the expressiveness...

Gan
A Little-known Kingdom in Africa

October 8, 2010 - April 2011
The exhibition presents a great variety of finely worked ornaments and cult objects in «bronze», production of the Gan people of Burkina Faso. The...

Man-Made Jewels, Jewels of the Earth
Jean Paul & Alexis Barbier-Mueller Collections

December 1, 2009 - September 15, 2010


Hei Tiki

With treasures from every era and from all over the world in gold and silver, inlaid with stones or beads, in bronze or iron, ivory, wood,...

African Terra Cottas
A Millenary Heritage

November 17, 2009 - January 8, 2010


Catalogue

A strange silhouette looms in the distance out of the dust swirling up from the track. Suddenly, a figure emerges swaying gracefully under the...

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