MADAM – I very much enjoyed your features on tribal art (ATG Nos 2306, 2307) in which two fairs, Tribal Art London and Parcours des Mondes, were previewed.
Older readers of your magazine will recall when important tribal works were banished to dusty corners of museums under such headings as ‘ethnographic specimens’. We have come a long way since then. In Paris, for example, collector/dealer Jacques Kerchache, with the support of Jacques Chirac, president at the time, succeeded in his campaign to have ‘primitive’ art admitted to the Louvre.