2020 Oceanic Art Market Report. By Michael Hamson (Reproduced with permission). New Domain Name : www.oceanicart.com Introduction There are two critical factors that shaped the Oceanic … [Read More...]
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Mathias Kauage, PNG Artist
Image: Mathias Kauage at Ray Hughes Gallery February 1999. Image by Ben Rushton. Mathias Kauage O.B.E. was Papua New Guinea’s best known and most highly awarded artist of the contemporary era. He was artistically active in the six crucial years leading up to 1975 (when PNG became an independent nation), until 2003 when he died. […]
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Another Successful Tribal Art Fair Sydney
by Bill Rathmell The Tribal Art Fair Sydney, held by the Oceanic Art Society at the National Art School on 17 August, may not be described as the only one of its kind in the world (as is the Parcours des Mondes, elsewhere in this Journal), it is certainly set fair to become the best in […]
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Notes on Dumont d’Urville
One of the early French navigators whose collection will be viewed in La Rochelle on the OAS Pre-2020 Parcours Tour of South West France. By Pierre Laffont Dumont d’Urville survived three circumnavigations of the earth including through the then-unchartered waters of the South Pacific. He named many locations previously unknown to Europeans, most of them with a […]
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OAS tour of South West France Galleries
Pre-2020 Parcours des Mondes If enough members are interested in viewing the Oceanic Art collections from early French navigators and collectors, the Oceanic Art Society, under the direction of Pierre Laffont, proposes to organize a tour in the South West of France in the 4 days preceding the opening of the September 2020 Parcours des Mondes in Paris. […]
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