Tribal Art London, The Mall Galleries, London SW1 from 10th-13th September 2014.

The UK’s only specialist top-flight tribal art event re-launches this year as the Tribal Art London fair with a new home at The Mall Galleries, London SW1.

Yoruba Egungun Mask from Nigeria.
£12,000.
Michael Backman Gallery

Known previously as Tribal Perspectives this leading event re-launches itself as Tribal Art London at a new Central London venue. The larger size of the new home means that a wider variety of art and artefacts can be shown, including for the first time ethnographic photography and contemporary art.

Carved ivory figure, 19th Century,
Loango people, Congo.
£4,500
Adam Prout

Ceremonial shield. Kikuyu tribe, Kenya.
£17,000
Provenance: Collection of Rolf de Mare (Sweden).
Clive Loveless and Bryan Reeves/Tribal Gathering

The exhibitors, drawn from the UK, Europe and Australia, are leading experts in their field. As organiser Bryan Reeves says: “The early works exhibited by dealers at Tribal Art London are all original period items made for intentional use, many of them museum-quality. There is a great deal of later work on the market today, made not for use in the tribe but to serve the consumer demands of a tourist trade. Our exhibitors source historic items, often with provenance, collected in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries by explorers, scientists and missionaries who would have lived alongside or known the peoples for whom these objects held great significance.”

Artist: Kiboko
Title: In all the wrong places
Medium: Mixed media on canvas, 2012
76x51cm
£6700.00
Kamba Fine Art

Opening Times:
Weds 10 September 6.30pm-9.30pm
Thurs 11 Sept 10am- 7pm
Friday 12 Sept 10am-7pm
Saturday 13 Sept 10am-6pm

BIOMA ANCESTOR FIGURE
c. 1900
Papuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea
Ochre and kaolin on carved wood
53.6 cm height
£5,750
Kapil Jariwala

http://www.tribalartlondon.com