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Antiques dealer who sold African mask for $4.6M wins legal battle with original owners after buying it for $165 By Shannon Thaler Published Dec. 19, 2023, 2:53 p.m. ET ...

The couple, in their eighties, sold the wooden mask in September 2021 as part of a number of antiquities including African artifacts they had kept in their secondary home in southern France and wanted ...

The 88-year-old and his 81-year-old wife, identified by their initials in court documents but confirmed to CNN as Mr. and Mrs. Fournier by their lawyer, listed for sale an ancient African mask ...

Carved wooden mask represents the female ancestor during ritual initiation dances BY NDUBUISI EZELUOMBA Francoise Billoin Richardson curator of African art, NOMA ... Jan 24, 2022 1 min to read ...

Law & Politics Once Deemed ‘Worthless,’ a $4.4 Million African Mask Is Now at the Center of a Restitution Claim by Gabon The mask is believed to have been stolen from Gabon around 1917 by ...

An elderly French couple are suing an antiques dealer, claiming they were duped into selling a "worthless" African mask for $157, only to learn months later it was sold at auction for $4.4 million ...

The Museum of East Texas is currently displaying African masks and artifacts on loan from the Michelson Museum of Art until April 15. Approximately a year and a half ago, MET executive director John ...

Research in African Literatures, founded in 1970, is the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide and provides a forum in English for research on the oral and written literatures of ...