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  GALERIE CARREFOUR 141 Boulevard Raspail, Paris Vérité Collection Wood block print poster, ARTS PRIMITIFS, CARREFOUR, 141 BD RASPAIL, DAN 5803 c. 1948

  GALERIE CARREFOUR 141Boulevard Raspail, Paris
  Vérité Collection Wood block print poster “ARTS PRIMITIFS, CARREFOUR, 141 BD RASPAIL, DAN 5803″ c. 1948

  Float mounted in a finely contoured oak frame.

  Inscribed to: A Monsieur E Mme Breton, Vérité Image dimension:

  H: 19 1/2″ x W: 12 3/4″
  Framed dimension: H: 26 3/4″ x W: 19 3/4”

  Price: $9,000

  The Vérité Collection of primitive arts started after World War 1 in 1920. Pierre Vérité, a young artist started buying primitive art before anyone else. Vérité opened a small store selling exclusively tribal art in 1931 in conjunction with the Paris Colonial Exposition. Pierre Vérité regarded “primitive arts” as art, and it is the raw power of these primitive pieces that changed the history of 20th-century European culture. In 1936, he opened the Galerie Carrefour on the Boulevard Raspail, which was a hangout for artists and collectors such as Pablo Picasso, Helena Rubenstein, Nancy Cunard and Andre Breton. Tribal art was one of the key influences on Pablo Picasso and he often dropped into Pierre Vérité’s Galerie Carrefour in Paris to buy masks and carvings from Africa and Oceania. Henri Matisse was also a regular visitor, as were other artists such as Fernand Léger and Maurice de Vlaminck, while Vérité used to browse Parisian flea markets with André Breton, Surrealism’s chief theorist. In the decades that followed the opening of the gallery, the Vérité family’s client list grew to include Hollywood stars and leading museum curators, as well as some of the greatest names in 20th-century art. Vérité very quickly became the most important art dealer for primitive arts. In the 1948, Pierre’s son Claude became increasingly involved in the gallery. He went on African expeditions, collecting objects and information, and took photographs to document his travels, while his wife Jeannine was running the gallery operations. With Claude and Jeannine joining the gallery, Galerie Carrefour showed at all “Art Primitifs” exhibitions in Europe and the United States. The gallery established itself as the most important player in tribal arts in the world and exhibited until the 1990’s.

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  Robert Fried, The Charlatans, Buddy Guy, North American Ibis Alchemical Co. at the Avalon Ballroom, September 22-24, 1967, 1st edition

  ROBERT FRIED USA

  The Charlatans, Buddy Guy, North American Ibis Alchemical Co. at the Avalon Ballroom   September 22-24, 1967

  Marked: Fried 67 (in script), © Family Dog Productions 639 Gough Street San Francisco, Calif. 94102

  H: 19 15/16” x W: 14”

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  Nile Behncke “Oshkosh, Wisconsin” Watercolor and pencil on paper c. 1935

  NILE BEHNCKE (1894-1954) USA

  Oshkosh, Wisconsin  c. 1935

  Watercolor and pencil on paper

  Painting: H: 20 ¼” x W: 24 ¾”

  Framed: H: 33” x W: 37 1/2”

  Nile Juergen Behncke was a well-known Wisconsin watercolorist and the first director of the Oshkosh Public Museum, from 1924-1954.

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  Wes Wilson, Grateful Dead, Big Mama Mae Thornton at the Fillmore, December 9-11, 1966, 1st edition

  WES WILSON USA

  Grateful Dead, Big Mama Mae Thornton at the Fillmore   December 9-11, 1966

  Marked: © 1966 Wes Wilson 41, printing by West Coast Lithograph Co. SF

  H: 21 7/8” x W: 14”