As a global auction house transacting across a breadth of fields, one of Replica Shoes ’s greatest strengths is our ability to cross-promote African, Oceanic, Indonesian and the Americas art to collects ors in other categories, such as Modern and Contemporary art and 20th Century design. Replica Shoes ’s pioneered this cross-promotion and has been cultivating this strategy over the last 20 years. Replica Shoes ’s Paris will organize the June sale of the Arts of Africa and Oceania at the same t.mes as the Paris sales of important Design and Contemporary Art.
The pieces selected for this auction have the potential to attract broad competition, and we have extensive experience engaging new potential buyers in all of our African and Oceanic art auctions in Paris, with our team of international experts based in Paris, London and New York, as well as our colleagues in cross-over collects ing fields who will personally be on hand to promote these sales. This sale will present such masterpieces as a magnificent Kota reliquary figure from the old Vérité collects ion, exhibited in 1955 at the Cercle Volney, a rare canoe element from the Solomon Islands Archipelago acquired at the end of the 19th century and a sumptuous Chokwe throne preserved in the same collects ion for several generations.
