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You are invited by Alain Naoum to see his exhibition with African Art and with contemporary art of California sculptor Woods Davy, in Brussels Next Week in his gallery during the Bruneaf.

There will be 2 stone sculptures from Woods Davy's "Cantamar" series and six works on paper in the show.

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Alain Naoum
Antique African Art
30 rue saint anne
1000 Brussels - Belgium

www.naoum.com

Interview with Alain Naoum  April 28, 2009, part one.

David  Norden:    First let me ask what interested you initially in African Art, and how did you start dealing in the area.- Can you tell us what tribes and type of objects you sold best in the past? Do you see some actual trends?

naoum-songyeAlain Naoum:  Since I was a child I have been always interested by the history of mankind, like most children I imagine. Questions about where we came from, what was early man and life like, etc. always held my interest.  I also really enjoyed reading the comics of “Tintin” - “Les Septs Boules de Crystal,”  “Les Cigares du Pharaon,” etc.
>From an early age, I was a regular visitor of the “Musée du Cinquantenaire,” and I was fascinated by Egyptology.  In 1987, while still in school, I had the opportunity to see the exhibition “Utotombo” at “Le Palais des Beaux-arts” in Brussels.  It was a revelation! I can still picture a “Ngangela” mask from the Vanderstraeten’s collection, in my mind.   I had the same impression with African Art as I had with Egyptian art! The mask seemed alive.  At that outing something was born inside me, and I wanted to learn more.   I returned to the show with Jacques van Overstraeten, who was a friend of my grandfather. Jacques was very enthusiastic about African art and knowledgeable connoisseur.  I think I caught the “virus” from him.

My grandfather was a “brocanteur” in Brussels.  In his antique shop, “Place du Jeu de Balle,” he dealt in everything from antique furniture and paintings to an occasional work of African art.  He knew Willy Mestach, who was a regular visitor of the “vieux met,” and also Bruno Conti to whom he sold a very good Baluba staff, which was in the Conti’s collection later on. He knew all “old school” collectors, and he did business with them many of them.
I lost my father when I was 18 years old, but prior to his passing he told me: “better than wasting your time at school, you should work!” And he was right! Unfortunately, I was not as diligent student at school as I should have been.  So he started to consign a few African art pieces to me for sale. Yes consign! To educate me to the value of work and money, and it was a good school. His death was perhaps the shock of my life, which taught me some of life’s harsh realities.
 
I think my christening, my bar mistva in the business was during my first ...

 

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