Local Collectors sell African collection to Paul Allen's Museum Project
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Sale of the Season? Christies has confirmed the sale of a local physician and his wife's African Art Collection to Paul Allen of Microsoft fame earlier this month.
The tribune has confirmed the private sale of Dr. and Mrs. JC Biebuyck's important collection of traditional African Art to Mr. Allen's new museum to be built in Seattle, Washington by 2021.
The works include sentinel pieces from an inherited group of African statuary collected by Dr. Biebuyck's father in the Congo during the 1940's and 50's. Among the works, were pieces never seen in public before the famous 1970's primitive art Show at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.
The reported sale was for 15 million dollars, but that has not been confirmed by either the local physician or Christies. The couple also own a significant body of works by contemporary African artists which will be on loan to the Tampa Museum of Art later this year.
That group of contemporary works will be sold at Christie’s New York in the spring of 2019. Experts are already speculating that it could be among the most valuable collection ever sold of contemporary African art, a collecting field which until recently has had scant collectors. That all changed last year with the French billionaire, Jean Pigozzi's, acquisition of more than 2000 works of contemporary art and the opening of the first contemporary art museum in South Africa. The Biebuyck provenance will only increase interest in this burgeoning area of collection. The group of painting is expected to bring between 15 and 20 million dollars.
“It will be an important sale of a fresh collection of works which have never been publicly displayed before the Tampa show,” former Sotheby’s co-chairman of Impressionist art David Norman told the Sarasota Tribune. “Every work is interesting. A group of works by Lubaki are unique as he created only 4 known paintings and all four are in the Biebuyck collection.
The sale is especially noteworthy Dr. Biebuyck and his wife have recently move to southwest Florida.
Several of the Biebuyck works have been promised to the Tampa Museum after the show.
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