Alain Naoum
Antique African Art
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Dear $email,
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.
Best Regards,
Alain Naoum
Antique African Art
30 rue saint anne
1000 Brussels - Belgium
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?
Alain
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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