African masks are an important part of the continent's cultural heritage, representing different tribes and traditions ...

Masks have become a ubiquitous health necessity ... Nigeria and the collaboration taking place for the most part there, the designers put the African context at the fore. Lexus’ key design ...

It seems no museum collection is complete without a few token African masks. Many of us have glimpsed them walking between exhibits, but few of us know what role they actually play to the many ...

An antiques dealer who sold a rare African mask for $4.6 million won a legal battle with the elderly couple who sold it to him for $165 without realizing the treasure’s actual worth. A French ...

listed for sale an ancient African mask, which had been inherited from Mr. Fournier’s grandfather. The grandfather, René-Victor Edward Maurice Fournier, had served as a colonial governor in ...

A French court has rejected an appeal by an elderly couple who were paid €150 ($165) for a rare Gabonese mask that later sold for more than €4 million ($4.4 million) at auction. The couple ...

A second-hand dealer in France has appeared in court accused of deceiving a couple by paying €150 (£130) for an African mask which he resold for €4.2m. The pensioner couple found the mask ...

Gabon had separately requested that the sale of the mask be halted on the grounds that it rightfully belonged to the country. But the court also rejected that argument. The West African country ...

A 20th-century African mask sold for £107,100, more than 300 times its guide price. The Kwele mask from Gabon was given an estimate of between £300 to £500 by Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury ...