Plumes amérindiennes. Guyane. Don Dr. Marcel Heckenroth. Archéologie the French-American artist Niki de

the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) built a body of work as vast as it is complex over the course of fifty years

two art schools founded in the aftermath of the First World War

Provenance

the themes of the Occupation and Nazism

Plumes amérindiennes. Guyane. Don Dr. Marcel Heckenroth. Archéologie the French-American artist Niki deIn 2008, the Museum of African, Oceanic and Amerindian Arts in Marseille received a donation of magnificent feather ornaments, collected from the Wayampi Amerindians in French Guiana by Dr. Marcel Heckenroth during his tours of the Oyapock between 1939 and 1942. It is in the art of the feather that all the refinement of the aesthetics of the Amazonian peoples is expressed: these feather ornaments are exceptional, both for their remarkable state of