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Yann Ferrandin is a renowed French dealer in the field of Tribal Arts (Ancient works of art and ethnography from Africa, Oceania, South-East Asia and North America).

He started his career in 1994, opening in partnership his first gallery with another leading dealer in the field.

In 2007 he founded his own company and opened his gallery rue Visconti, Paris. The gallery moved in 2013 to his actual large and noted space in 33, rue de Seine, Paris (former Galerie Downtown – François Laffanour).

Author of many monographs and publications on Tribal Arts, he is member since more than 15 years of the French National Company of Expert CNE.

The gallery is showing selected tribal works of art, participating in many French and international events (BRAFA,Brussels ; Masterpiece, London ; Parcours des Mondes, Paris ; TEFAF, Maastricht). Located in a prestigious space in Saint-Germain des Près, Paris, the leading area for amateurs of Tribal Arts, Yann Ferrandin is regularly staging eye-opening thematic exhibitions which often lead to the publication of catalogues that soon become reference works: “KONGO”, 2008; “BLACK SEAT”, 2010; “KOTA”, 2011, “MELANESIA”, 2012 or “HAIR”, 2016.

Fascinated personally and for his collections by the ancient masks and sculptures of Japan for several decades – with a very strong focus on the ancient masks of the Noh, Kyogen and Gigaku theaters, and the ancient masks used in the temples and shrines –, it is quite naturally that he decided to develop professionally also this discipline more than ten years ago with the assistance of his wife Kaoruko Takenobu, herself passionate about the ancient arts of Japan.

The gallery works with private international clients and with some of the largest museums in the world.

MASQUE DAN RÉGIONS FRONTALIÈRES DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE CÔTE-D’IVOIRE ET DU LIBÉRIA

Bois sculpté, pigments ; métal (dents), coiffure en fibres, tissus, cauri. Hauteur totale avec coiffe : 30 cm ; hauteur sans la coiffe : 26 cm. Datation estimée : 19e siècle – début du 20e siècle.

HISTORIQUE DE COLLECTION TRANSMIS : Collection Jean-Paul Delcourt, Abidjan, République de Côte-d’Ivoire, Collection particulière européenne, acquis du précédent en 1970.

EXPOSITIONS ET PUBLICATIONS :

Masques du monde / Het masker in de wereld, Société Générale de Banque, Bruxelles, Belgique, exposition du 28 juin au 31 juillet 1974, n° 7 du catalogue imprimé en juin 1974, auteurs Pr. A. Dorsinfang-Smets et Dr. Adr. G. Claerhout. L’art africain, Jacques Kerchache – Jean-Louis Paudrat – Lucien Stephan, éditions citadelle, 1988, illustration n° 55 page 100 et descriptif page 103.

Dan Mask

BORDER REGIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF CÔTE D’IVOIRE AND LIBERIA

Carved wood, pigments ; metal (teeth); headdress made of fibers, cloth, cowrie shell. Total height with headdress : 30 cm ; height without headdress: 26 cm. Estimated date : 19 th century - early 20 th century.

COLLECTION HISTORY REPORTED TO US : Jean- Paul Delcourt Collection, Abidjan, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, European private collection, acquired from the above in 1970.

EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS :

Masques du monde / Het masker in de wereld, Société Générale de Banque, Brussels, Belgium, exhibition from June 28 to July 31, 1974 and n° 7 of the catalog printed in June 1974, authors Pr. A. Dorsinfang-Smets and Dr. Adr. G. Claerhout.

L’art africain, Jacques Kerchache - Jean-Louis Paudrat - Lucien Stephan, éditions citadelle, 1988, illustration n° 55 page 100 and description page 103.