NIGERIA

Ana & Antonio Casanovas at Alain Bovis Gallery

The exhibition presented in A. Bovis gallery included 3 very fine art works which can be considered icons of Nigerian primitive art, among others, a magnificent Mbembe drum, a rare Tiv figure or a powerful Mumuye mask. This exhibition showed through a fine selection of pieces, the originality of plastic forms, the inventiveness and cultural diversity found in the Art of this country.

TIV

Benou region, Cameroon
Wood, H. 60 cm
XIX C.

Ex. col. Anne and Jacques Kerchache, Paris

Publications :
« L’art Africain », Jacques Kerchache et alii, Paris, 1988, p. 118