Tag: african sculpture

• The White Masks of Gabon: “Foreign” symbolism in Traditional African sculpture.

  August 2, 2026

  Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in Central Africa. https://open.substack.com/pub/isaacsamuel/p/the-white-masks-of-gabon-foreign?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=oj2p5 more ›

• ‘The very essence of figuration in African sculpture’: works from the collection of Hilde and Dieter Scharf

  June 14, 2025

  In the final decade of his life, Dieter Scharf – scion of one of Germany’s great collecting dynasties – filled his Hamburg villa with exceptional sub-Saharan sculpture. Fifty of these… more ›