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Joan Barist Primitive Art specializes in important African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian sculpture and textiles. The gallery collection includes antique masks and statues, as well as terracotta pots, ancient Nok statues, beaded pieces, ivory, textiles, and outstanding metal utilitarian currency and weapons. We have a particular specialty in important antique textiles, including major examples of African and Pre-Columbian weavings. We guarantee the material to be authentic traditional art. Pieces from the collection have been purchased by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, The Princeton Museum of Art, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Rhode Island School of Design, The Johnson Art Museum (Cornell University), and included in many museum exhibitions. Quotes from The New York Times Art Editor, Holland Cotter, about the NY International Tribal and Textile Arts Show at the Seventh Avenue Armory:
"At Barist there's a masterly carving of a Baga male figure; with his chin resting on his raised hands, he's like "The Thinker," standing up."
"Add to the Natare piece (Alice Natare, an English born artist), a small ancient, abstract Peruvian weaving at Joan Barist that looks like an aerial view of fields with a teal-blue lake in the middle." |
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