Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a shop in Antwerp where time stood still. Once you walked in the door, your eyes would be dazzled by hundreds of ancient gods, of masks, of curiosities from Africa and all over the world, looking down from the shelves. It was like walking into a different world, a different time…like a Victorian cabinet of curiosities still alive and well in this busy world.
…and the wonderful thing is…it’s still there… and if in Antwerp you can even go and find the shop yourself and lose yourself among the shelves, and benefit from all thirty years of his experience collecting, owning and selling some of the world’s most beautiful and refined tribal and non-western art.
Right now there is a mask or a figure standing on a shelf in Antwerp that has been waiting for you all its life. So come and see them. They’re waiting for a new home, or place a bid on those available online.
David Norden African Art. Sint Katelijnevest 27. B2000 Antwerpen. Belgium. Phone: +32 3 227 35 40 OR email: david.norden@telenet.be
Lots in auction (ending Sunday December 1, 2019 at +/- 8 p.m. Belgian time)
Mask – Wood – Provenance Marceau Riviere – Baule – Côte d’Ivoire
Reserve price: €1500
Mask – Wood – Provenance Donald Taitt – Ituri – Congo DRC
Reserve price: €780
Mask – Wood – Prov – Yaka – Congo DRC
Reserve price : €300
Mask – Wood – Published Prov Schaedler – Boki – Cross River, Nigeria
Current bid: €900
Reserve price: €1500
Poro Mask – Porcelain, Wood – Provenance Gaethan Schoonbroodt – Dan Gere – Liberia
Reserve price: €650
Mask – Wood – Prov Carlo Bold – Suku – Congo DRC
Reserve price : €753
Sculpture – Wood – Prov Mark Verstockt – Mumuye – Mali
Reserve price: €450
Sculpture – Wood – Prov Donald Taitt – Mumuye – Mali
Reserve price: €393
Sculpture – Wood – Prov Gaetan Schoonbroodt – Mumuye – Mali
Reserve price : €855
Ancestor figure – Wood – Jo Nyeleni- Prov Jan Kusters – Bamana – Mali
Reserve price: €958
Bird Mask – Wood – Provenance Donald Taitt – Baoulé – Ivory Coast
Reserve price : €350
Shrine (figure) – Feathers, Plant fibre, Wood – Provenance Jan Van Camp – Lobi – Liberia
Reserve price : €275
Shrine figure – Wood – Provenance Donald Taitt – Mambila – Nigeria
Reserve price : €350
Small Shrine figure – Wood – Provenance Donald Taitt – Mambila – Nigeria
Reserve price: €350
Doll – Wood, horse hair – Provenance Donald Taitt – Lobi – Burkina Faso
Reserve price : €150
Mask – Wood – Provenance Donald Taitt – Bamileke – Cameroon
Reserve price : €470
Doll – Wood – Akuaba-Provenance Donald Taitt – Ashanti – Ghana
Reserve price : €200
Maternity figure – Wood – Provenance Bob Germ – Dogon – Mali
Current bid: €1
Reserve price not met: €250
Mask – Wood – Provenance Donald Taitt – Dan Gere – Liberia
Reserve price : €400
Head – Wood – Provenance Robert van der Heijden – Lobi – Burkina Faso
Reserve price: €635
Mask – Wood – Provenance Donald Taitt – lega – Congo DRC
Reserve price : €300
Ancestor figure – Wood – Nkishi – Bakongo – Congo DRC
Reserve price : €250
Figure – Dense Wood – Provenance Donald Taitt – Lobi – Burkina Faso
Reserve price : €485
Cubistic Ancestor Figure – Wood – Provenance Donald Taitt – Mumuye – Nigeria
Reserve price : €400
Sculpture – Wood – Provenance Donald Taitt – Boa – Congo DRC
Reserve price : €350
Female Figure – Wood – Bateba Thilkotina- Provenance Donald Taitt – Lobi – Burkina Faso
Reserve price : €300
Figure – Wood – Provenance Donald Taitt – Lobi – Ghana
Reserve price : €200
Ancestor figure – Brass, Wood – Nkishi – Songye – Congo DRC
Reserve price : €1550
Fish figure – Wood – Kumawu – Baoulé – Ghana
Reserve price : €300