Magazines - Tribal Art Spring 2011

By Solveig Pigearias, museologist and specialist in African art and Michèle Hornn, art historian in charge of the documents department of the Musée de l’Orangerie.

Introduction
Paul Guillaume (1891–1934) was among the most prominent figures of the early twentieth century art market, as much in the field of modern art as in African art. On June 15, 2010, fourteen African objects formerly in his collection were sold at auction by Christie’s in Paris. All had previously been sold at an auction in 1965 that dispersed what remained of his important collection of African art, which by then was owned by his widow, Domenica Walter, who had remarried architect Jean Walter, the owner of the Zellidja mines.