Franck Marcelin Oceanic and Eskimo Art
Franck Marcelin is specialized in Oceanic and Eskimo Art.
Biography
After his art history studies and a job as a curator at the Musée de la Marine in Paris, Franck Marcelin opened his gallery in Aix-en-Provence in 1981.
As a specialist about the art of the Pacific and curator for numerous exhibitions of Oceanic Art, he is a member of both federaction, the "Fédération nationale des experts professionnels spécialisés en art" and the "Confédération européenne des experts d'art".
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SPEAKER’S FACE MASK
Kwakiutl people
Central Coast of British Columbia
Canada
Provenance:
Merton Simpson Collection, New York
Peggy & Paul Rabut Collection, Massachusetts
Acquired from the above in 1958
Sotheby’s, New York, 28 November 1989, lot 189
Jeffrey Myers Collection, New York
Abraham Rosman Collection, New York
Private collection, Montreal
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HEADREST
Village of Kaminimbit
Iatmul people
East Sepik Province
Papua New Guinea
Provenance:
Collected during the La Korrigane expedition on 7 October 1935
Collection of Etienne and Monique de Ganay, Paris
On deposit at the Musée de l’Homme, Paris, under no. D39.3 / 1334
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, sale by Me Maurice and Philippe Rheims, assisted by J. Roudillon, Collection océanienne du voyage de La Korrigane, 4–5 December 1961, lot 89, illustrated pl. V
Collection of Marcia & John Friede, Rye, New York
Collection of Franck Marcelin, Éguilles
Collection of Irène Beard, London
Collection of Sophie Camu-Lindsay, Fife, Scotland
Exhibition:
Paris, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Musée de l’Homme, Le voyage de La Korrigane en Océanie, 20 June – 30 October 1938
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Contact
Only by apointment
70 Chemin du Moulin
13510 Eguilles
Tel: (+33)(0)6 0723 3360
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