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Adventures with Van Gogh

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Adventures with Van Gogh

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Object lessonspreview

From a prehistoric ivory head to a painting once owned by Barbara Walters: our pick of November’s auctions and fairs

Plus, an expressive Fragonard and an Ed Ruscha text work from the Emily Fisher Landau collection

Aimee Dawson and Carlie Porterfield

Art marketarchive

Tribal art attracts Modern collectors

A new breed of buyer is crossing over from modern and contemporary art and acquiring the top pieces in every field

Antiquities & Archaeologyarchive

Brussels Non-European Art Fair fair hit by weak dollar and stay-away collectors

Paris auctions were poor except for Pre-Colombian works

Art marketarchive

Chirac’s Musée de l’Homme raises prices for primitive art

Fetish figures, tribal shields and masks command attention

Cultural policyarchive

From primitive to art back to ethnology: too much zeal, says leading collector

Eugene Victor Thaw on the transformation of tribal art

Eugene Victor Thaw

Benin Bronzesarchive

Benin bronzes take limelight at sales of tribal art in London

Tribal art expected to do well at upcoming sales

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