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The Art of Collecting African Art
The Art of Collecting African Art brings together selections of figures, masks, prestige and utilitarian objects from nine important private collections of African art providing a base for the discussion of collecting and the collectors’ personal impulses and tastes along with a bit of advice based on lessons learned from experience. Authenticity, connoisseurship, intuition, passion, and the joy of discovery are touched upon in the texts written about collecting and the private collectors themselves. Featured collectors are: Ernst Anspach, Arman, Gaston T. deHavenon and Family, John and Nicole Dintenfass, Jean and Noble Endicott, George and Gail Feher, Brian and Diane Leyden, Daniel and Marian Malcolm, and Franklin and Shirley Williams.
Exhibition catalogue includes introduction, The Art of Collecting African Art by Susan Vogel and essays, Collecting African Art: Two Personal Viewpoints by Robert and Nancy Nooter; and catalogue of collections with short descriptive background of each collector. Published and distributed by The Center for African Art, May 1988. 64 pp. Paper: ISBN 0-9614587-9-8. LCCN: 88-7253.