African Faces, African Figures: The Arman Collection

Alain Nicolas (Contributor), Jean-Hubert Martin (Contributor), Jacques Kerchache (Contributor), Museum for African Art (New York, N.Y.) (Host institution)

ISBN 10: 0945802218 / ISBN 13: 9780945802211

Published by Museum for African Art, New York, 1997

About this Item

279 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cm. Summary:African Faces, African Figures: The Arman Collection is an extraordinary collection of more than 180 visually provocative objects from diverse regions of Africa. These objects were gathered over the past 40 years by world renowned French painter and sculptor Armand P. Arman, an artist who came to prominence during the 1960s as part of the Paris-based Nouveau Realisme, or New Realism, movement and his American wife Corice Canton. Though previously shown only in parts at national and international locations, this exhibition gathers these rare and beautiful African objects together for the first time.

Seller Inventory # 7cb609

Bibliographic Details

• Title: African Faces, African Figures: The Arman Collection
• Publisher: Museum for African Art, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0945802218
• ISBN 13: 9780945802211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Africa
  • Anthropology

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Synopsis

An extraordinary collection of more than 180 visually provocative objects from diverse regions of Africa, gathered over the past forty years by French painter and sculptor.